Name: Camas lily (Camassia spp. and cvs.)
Zone: 3 to 11
Size:1 to 3 feet tall and wide; clumping
conditions: full sun; moist soil (tolerates heavy clay);
can go dry in summer
In their famous expedition,Lewis and Clark reported that the sheer abundace of camas lily
made meadows look like water. The rarity of camas lily in gardens is probably due to its
slowness in reching blooming maturity, yet its bulb are starting to appear more frequently.
After forming a tuft of unruly, grassy leaves, camas lily sends out stems coiffed with a
constellation of star-shaped flowers in rare shades of sky blue to lilac and purple to white.
-Dave Demers, Vancouver, British Columbia
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