Plant of the Week: Nov 30

Camass

Camassia scilloides 

(Raf.) Cory

other common names: 
blue camass, eastern camass, Indian potatoes, swamp sego, wild hyacinth
Camassia: from the American Indian name of the plant, quamash
Scilloides: from Latin for “like Scilla,” an 
Old World genus of bulbous plants with leaves much like those of this species
Lily family: Liliaceae

Photograph by Thomas Rosburg, Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Second Edition