| Bulbs are a traditional Native American staple food, best pit-steamed or slow-roasted, when they will sweeten and taste like horehound candy. Produced in damp, open prairie ground under tall stems of pretty blue flowers that ring the upper ½ of the stalk Common Camas is a perennial of the Lily family. Small bulbs will naturalize quickly to form large drifts of shimmering blue in mid-Spring. Strappy 18" foliage dies back to the ground in early summer. Zone 5-9. |
