#camassia

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 31 July 2025

The upright clump-forming, bulbous perennials Camassia leichtlinii 'Semiplena' (camas, Californian white-flowered quamash) add an extra dimension to a border in early summer. These bulbs need a fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil in sun or partial shade.

Jill Raggett

[nncastle]

Camassias. I want to plant way more this year.

[botaniqueer]

The camas is awake!!

[ends-2-beginnings]

Photo by hanabiei

One can be the master of what one does, but

never of what one feels.

-Gustave Flaubert

[fxrestfxiiry]

Camassia leichtlinii

[faguscarolinensis]

Camassia quamash / Common Camas at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[uxbridge]

Spring woodland wildflowers

[cedar-glade]

It's still the species rich dry hillside that I know and love; though, only half of the hyacinth was in bloom at the time.

Alluvial mesic riparian flat woods meets mixed conglomerant and partially concreted dry hillside of the Great Miami miander.

Here is one of Hamilton co. Ohio's greatest displays of unique flora. The hill isnt an ecotone and the change isnt abrupt though the niche of a few species is noticable and subtle. In bloom was blue eyed mary, catch bedstraw, both starry and TN chick weed, spreading chervil, sweet anise root, black snake root, and dwarf lark spur. The forrest it's self is home to much more blooming at the same time. For this specific spot though, the hyacinth is in the spot light.