Camassia quamash subsp. breviflora
Amer. Midl. Naturalist 28: 737, figs. 7, 10a, b. 1942.
Endemic
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Leaves 10–17 mm wide, glaucous adaxially. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic; tepals connivent over capsules after anthesis, usually forced apart again by capsule growth, bright blue to deep bluish violet, each 3-veined or occasionally 5-veined, 15–20 × 3–5 mm; anthers bright-yellow, 4–5 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, 5–15 mm. Capsules 7–16 mm. Seeds 5–10 per locule.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat: Wet meadows
Elevation: 700–2500 m
Distribution
Calif., Nev., Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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bright-yellow +
introrse +
versatile +
incurving-erect +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
dilated +
keeled +
narrow +
absent +
1;several +
sterile +
lanceolate +
tunicate +
clustered +
pale green;pale-brown +
not deciduous +
ovoid +
solid +
fleshy +
slender +
single +
capsular +
loculicidal +
bracteate +
racemose +
simple +
whorled +
persistent +
basal +
glaucous +
6;36 +
showy +
Amer. Midl. Naturalist +
1942 +
wind-distributed +
black +
lustrous +
absent +
Endemic +
staminodial +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
3-lobed +
filiform +
Camassia quamash subsp. breviflora +
Camassia quamash +
subspecies +
connivent +
bright blue;deep bluish violet +
long-persistent +
15mm;20mm +
withering +
absent +
lanceolate +
equal +
3mm;5mm +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
perennial +
woody +