Camassia leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii
Family: Agavaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Camassia is a native perennial found in northwestern California, the northern California Ranges, and northern and central Sierra Nevada Mountains in wet meadows at elevations of 1,000 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces stunning blue violet to bright blue flowers in clusters with generally fewer than 5 open simultaneously. Growing with tall stems 20 to 100 centimeters high, it emerges from a single ovoid bulb and develops 3 to 9 long leaves up to 60 centimeters in length and 5 to 25 millimeters wide. Its leaves are long and grass-like, spreading outward from the central stem in a graceful arrangement. The fruit is an oblong to ovoid capsule 1 to 3 centimeters long, containing 6 to 12 seeds per chamber.
Habitat: Common; wet meadows
Bloom period: May-Aug
Elevation: 1000-2600 m
Bioregions: NW, CaR, n&c SNH
California counties: El Dorado, Fresno, Humboldt, Butte, Tuolumne, Lake, Sierra, Mendocino, Sonoma, Colusa, San Mateo, Tulare, Siskiyou, Trinity, Mariposa, Plumas, Modoc, Placer, Madera, Alpine, Lassen
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