Prairie Camas

Camassia angusta flowers two to three weeks later than sympatric populations of C. scilloides.

Bulbs sometimes clustered, globose, 1–3 cm diam. Leaves 3–11, 2–6 dm × 5–20 mm. Inflorescences 27–87 cm; sterile bracts 3–19(–28), bracts subtending flowers shorter than or equaling pedicel. Flowers actinomorphic; tepals withering separately, sometimes connivent over capsules, light blue to lavender, each 3- or 5-veined, 6–10 × 2.2–3.6 mm; anthers bright yellow, 1.5–2 mm; fruiting pedicel incurving-erect, 6–12 mm. Capsules deciduous, pale green to light brown, ovoid-ellipsoid, 6–10 mm. Seeds 2–5 per locule. 2n = 30.

Ark., Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Mo., Okla., Tex.

Flowering mid--late spring.

Prairies; 100--500m.

Scilla angusta Engelmann & A. Gray, Boston J. Nat. Hist. 5: 237. 1845; Camassia fraseri Torrey var. angusta (Engelmann & A. Gray) Torrey; Quamasia angusta (Engelmann & A. Gray) Piper