Flora of North America species comparison

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Camassia quamash subsp. intermedia
Photo is of parent taxon
Leaves

6–13 mm wide, not glaucous.
Flowers

usually zygomorphic;

tepals withering separately after anthesis, pale bluish violet, each usually 5- or 7-veined, occasionally 3-veined in outer whorls, 20–35 × 5 mm;

anthers bright yellow, 5–7 mm; fruiting pedicel strongly incurving, with capsules closely appressed to raceme axes, 35–60 mm.
Capsules

7–19 mm.
Seeds

6–10 per locule.

Camassia quamash subsp. intermedia
Phenology Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat Fields, pastures
Elevation 300–1000 m (1000–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 305.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Camassia > Camassia quamash
Sibling taxa
C. quamash subsp. azurea, C. quamash subsp. breviflora, C. quamash subsp. linearis, C. quamash subsp. maxima, C. quamash subsp. quamash, C. quamash subsp. utahensis, C. quamash subsp. walpolei
Name authority Gould: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 28: 734, figs. 7, 10c. (1942)
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