Leaves 6–15 mm wide, glaucous adaxially. Flowers slightly zygomorphic or actinomorphic; tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale to deep blue or bluish violet, each 3-veined, sometimes 5-veined in inner whorls, 15–30 × 3–5 mm; anthers dark bluish violet to brown, 2.5–4 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, with capsules appressed to raceme axes, 25–70 mm. Capsules 8–16 mm. Seeds 5–10 per locule.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat: Wet meadows
Elevation: 300–2500 m
Distribution
Alta., B.C., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash., Wyo.
Discussion
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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introrse +
versatile +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
dilated +
keeled +
narrow +
absent +
1;several +
sterile +
lanceolate +
tunicate +
clustered +
pale green;pale-brown +
not deciduous +
appressed +
incurving-erect +
ovoid +
solid +
fleshy +
slender +
single +
capsular +
loculicidal +
bracteate +
racemose +
simple +
whorled +
persistent +
basal +
glaucous +
6;36 +
showy +
Man. Bot. San Francisco, +
1894 +
wind-distributed +
black +
lustrous +
absent +
Endemic +
staminodial +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
3-lobed +
filiform +
Camassia quamash subsp. quamash +
Camassia quamash +
subspecies +
connivent +
pale;deep blue or bluish violet +
long-persistent +
15mm;30mm +
withering +
absent +
lanceolate +
equal +
3mm;5mm +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
perennial +
woody +