Camassia quamash subsp. azurea
Amer. Midl. Naturalist 28: 733. 1942.
Endemic
Basionym: Quamasia azurea A. Heller Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 26: 547. 1899
Leaves 4–13 mm wide, not glaucous. Flowers slightly zygomorphic or actinomorphic; tepals withering separately after anthesis, light bluish violet, each 5–9- veined, 3-veined in outer whorls, 12–27 × 1.5–3 mm; anthers yellow, 2.5–4 mm; fruiting pedicel spreading-erect, with capsules held away from raceme axes, 25–60 mm. Capsules 7–15 mm. Seeds 5–10 per locule.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late spring.
Habitat: Alluvial plains, meadows, light, well-drained prairie soils
Elevation: 0–200 m
Discussion
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yellow +
introrse +
versatile +
sheathing +
herbaceous +
dilated +
keeled +
narrow +
absent +
1;several +
sterile +
lanceolate +
tunicate +
clustered +
pale green;pale-brown +
not deciduous +
spreading-erect +
ovoid +
solid +
Wash. +
fleshy +
slender +
single +
capsular +
loculicidal +
bracteate +
racemose +
simple +
whorled +
persistent +
basal +
not glaucous +
6;36 +
showy +
Amer. Midl. Naturalist +
1942 +
wind-distributed +
black +
lustrous +
absent +
Endemic +
staminodial +
fertile +
capitate +
distinct +
3-lobed +
filiform +
Camassia quamash subsp. azurea +
Camassia quamash +
subspecies +
connivent +
violet;light bluish +
long-persistent +
12mm;27mm +
withering +
absent +
lanceolate +
equal +
1.5mm;3mm +
greener +
equal +
narrower +
perennial +
woody +