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Leaves

6–13 mm wide, not glaucous.

6–15 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.

slightly zygomorphic;

tepals connivent over capsules after anthesis, usually forced apart again by capsule growth, deep bluish violet, each 5-, 7-, or 9- veined, occasionally 3-veined in outer whorls, 20–35 × 5–8 mm;

anthers dull yellow to violet, 4–7 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, 10–25 mm.

Capsules

7–19 mm.

6–18 mm.

Seeds

6–10 per locule.

5–10 per locule.

Camassia quamash subsp. intermedia

Camassia quamash subsp. linearis

Phenology Flowering mid–late spring. Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat Fields, pastures Wet meadows
Elevation 300–1000 m (1000–3300 ft) 0–800 m (0–2600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
OR
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 305. FNA vol. 26, p. 305.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Camassia > Camassia quamash 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
C. quamash subsp. azurea, C. quamash subsp. breviflora, C. quamash subsp. intermedia, 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) Gould: Amer. Midl. Naturalist 28: 736, figs. 5(5–7), 7, 9. (1942)
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