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camas

Camassia

Camassia is a genus of plants in the asparagus family native to Canada and the United States. Common names include camas, quamash, Indian hyacinth, camash, and wild hyacinth.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

small camas

speciesCamassia quamash

great camas

speciesCamassia leichtlinii

Atlantic camas

speciesCamassia scilloides

Prairie Camas

speciesCamassia angusta

Cusick's Camas

speciesCamassia cusickii

Howell's camas

speciesCamassia howellii

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62219.