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Vorobik Botanical Art
P.O. Box 866, Lopez Island, WA 98261. 510-520-2423. vorobik@gmail.com
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Death Camas
Death Camas--click on image for detail view
Family: Liliaceae
Original: Private Collection
Cards: Announcement sized (3.5 by 4.875 inches), on watercolor paper with a deckled edge
Death Camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum, previously Zygadenus venenosus)
Liliaceae ~ Lily Family
Often overlooked, this poisonous relative of the common blue edible camas has smaller more numerous flowers, with lovely yellow nectaries at the base of each of the perianth segments. It often grows with camas in meadows and swales; native americans were thought to have weeded these plants out of the meadows that they tended for camas harvest.
