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Camassia
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Species
small camas
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
Native toAlabama, Alberta, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky
Observations15,778
Observations recorded28,836
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 208
- With media
- 190
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- MO, UCMP, KSTC, BFRS, ANSP, CM
- Recorded in
- United States
Research
22 papers- Disentangling complex relationships and disjunctions in western Camassia: Integrating multiple criteria to resolve taxonomic boundaries.American journal of botany · 2025
- Comparative Analysis of Growth Traits and Metabolic Profiles in Camassia Cultivars 'Alba' and 'Caerulea' Under Varying Cultivation Conditions.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
- Harvesting strategies as evidence for 4000 years of camas (Camassia quamash) management in the North American Columbia Plateau.Royal Society open science · 2021
- Phylogenetics within Camassia (Asparagaceae): examining difficult taxonomy and unusual variation using genomic restriction-site-associated DNA sequencing data.PeerJ · 2026
- Effects of traditional harvest and burning on common camas (Camassia quamash) abundance in Northern Idaho: The potential for traditional resource management in a protected area wetland.Ecology and evolution · 2021
via PubMed
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy and species
- Species
- Synonyms
- Cultivation and uses
- Indigenous methods of cultivation
- Food use
- Ornamental use
- Place names
- Role in indigenous trade and culture
- Theories of anthropogenic dispersal
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|upright=0.8|Cusick's camas (Camassia cusickii) thumb|right|Common camas (Camassia quamash ssp. quamash)
Camassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to North America. Common names include camas, quamash, Indian hyacinth, camash, and wild hyacinth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camassia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.