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great camas, large camas, Leichtlin camas, Leichtlin's camas

Bulbs

usually solitary, ovoid, 1.5–3 cm diam.

Leaves

3–9, 2–6 dm × 5–25 mm.

Inflorescences

20–130 cm;

sterile bracts 0, bracts subtending flowers usually shorter than pedicel.

Flowers

actinomorphic;

tepals strongly connivent over capsules after anthesis, deciduous as capsules develop, bluish violet to bright blue or creamy white, each 5-, 7-, or 9-veined, 20–40 × 4–10 mm;

anthers yellow, 4–7 mm; fruiting pedicel spreading-erect, 15–50 mm.

Capsules

often deciduous from pedicel, dull green, ovoid to ellipsoid, 10–25 × 6–12 mm.

Seeds

6–12 per locule.

2n

= 30.

Camassia leichtlinii

Distribution
from USDA
w United States and Canada
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Perianth always creamy white.
subsp. leichtlinii
1. Perianth usually bluish violet to bright blue, occasionally white.
subsp. suksdorfii
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 306.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Camassia
Sibling taxa
C. angusta, C. cusickii, C. howellii, C. quamash, C. scilloides
Subordinate taxa
C. leichtlinii subsp. leichtlinii, C. leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii
Synonyms Chlorogalum leichtlinii, C. esculenta var. leichtlinii, Quamasia leichtlinii
Name authority (Baker) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 20: 376. (1885)
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