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Camassia howellii
S. Watson
Family:
Asparagaceae
Howell's Camas
FNA
Resources
Frederick H. Utech in Flora of North America (vol. 26)
Bulbs sometimes clustered, ovoid, 1.5-3 cm diam. Leaves 4-7, 2-6 dm × 5-12 mm. Inflorescences 15-40 cm; sterile bracts 0, bracts subtending flowers shorter than or equaling pedicel. Flowers actinomorphic; tepals connivent over capsules after anthesis, deciduous as capsules develop, deep bluish violet, each 3- or 5-veined, 10-20 × 3-5 mm; anthers yellow, 2.5-3.5 mm; fruiting pedicel spreading, 15-25 mm. Capsules deciduous, shiny green, subglobose, 5-10 mm. Seeds 2-5 per locule. 2n = 30.
Flowering late spring. Wet meadows; of conservation concern; 200--400 m; Oreg.
Camassia howellii flowers one to two weeks later than sympatric populations of C. leichtlinii.
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