Cusick'S Camas

Growth habit

Geophyte

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Location

Bioswale Garden

Source of plant

Brent & Becky's Bulbs

Description

Bulbs to 9x5cm, ovoid to subspherical, malodorous. Leaves 40-80x2-4cm, 8-20, glaucous above, margins undulate. Scape 60-80cm; raceme to 40cm; bracts triangular-acuminate, white-green at first, becoming papery; pedicels 1.1-2.3cm, spreading at first, curving toward stem after flowering, erect in fruit; flowers somewhat irregular with 1 tepal deflexed; tepals 2.5-2.6 x 0.4-0.5cm, linear-oblong, pale blue, not twisting together as they wither; stamens shorter than tepals, filaments white, anthers yellow.

USDA Hardiness Zone

3