Plant

Camas

Camassia quamash
Plant Weippe Prairie, Clearwater County, Idaho New to Western Science
Camas

Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0

Common Names
Quamash / Camas Root
Habitat
Weippe Prairie
Conservation
Apparently secure
First Observed
1805-09-20
Observed At
Weippe Prairie, Clearwater County, Idaho

Steamed and dried roots were essential to the Nez Perce diet, but were too rich for the half-starved men of the Corps.

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