Camas Bulbs For Sale Oregon

Camassia leichtlinii semi plena.

Camas bulbs for sale oregon. Native peoples have refined the art of skillfully digging the bulbs with a crafted stick and then slow cooking camas in an earthen oven a finely tuned skill. Camas bulbs need to be cooked at low temperatures for at least 12 hours allowing maximum conversion from inulin to fructose making them sweet and sugary like a pear or fig. At a short distance the colour resembles lakes of bright clear water meriwether lewis 1806. Camassia quamash bulbs are an excellent choice for moist loam and clay soils.

5 large camassia bulbs botanical name. First documented by lewis and clark in the cascade mountains where the bulb was an important food plant for the native americans this lovely wildflower is very cold hardy and long lived. The withering tepals twist together around developing papery capsules. Full sun to partial shade hardiness.

Camas lily is a lovely native bulb species that blooms in late spring with clear blue flowers. This plant is in the lily family and produces blue spiked flowers and grass like leaves. The 5 20 pale blue to deep blue star shaped flowers bloom up a tall scape leafless stem from bottom to top and have bright yellow stamen and 6 tepals. It is more tolerant of shade and drought than the common camas and also more competitive.

Grows from a solitary starchy 1 2 in 2 5cm bulb producing numerous basal grass like leaves.