View source for Camarotis Quamash

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Camarotis Quamash, Greene (C. esculenta, Lindl.). Common Camass. Fig. 757. This species varies greatly; some forms are low and slender, others 2-3 ft. high, stout and many-fld.; it can be distinguished by the irregular perianth in which 5 segms. are more or less on one side and 1 on the other: lvs. ⅔ in. broad or less: fls. 10-40, varying from almost white to intense ultramarine in the varieties; segms. 3-5-nerved and a little longer than the stamens, narrow and channeled at the base; pedicels not exceeding the fls.: caps, ovate-oblong, obtuse, transversely veined. Calif, to Utah and north to Brit. Col. B.R. 1486. F.S. 3:275. Gn. 46:338 and p. 339.—Bulb cooked and eaten by the Indians. The fls. vary to white. The large ultramarine form is the one in the trade. The withered segments fall down about the pedicel irregularly.
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