Photo of the Week: Common Camas

I love the deep purple color of my common camas flowers; they sprout early in spring and bloom from mid-spring through early summer. They were a free gift of 20 bulbs I received a few years ago with an order of plants from a mail-order nursery. I planted a few in my front courtyard and about a dozen in the side garden bed where snowdrops bloom in late winter/early spring and where black-eyed susans bloom summer to fall. It’s a colorful bed where blooming flowers change from white to purple to bright yellow from late winter to fall. When I first planted them, I thought they were wild hyacinths (Camissa scilloides). But I learned this weekend they’re actually Camassia quamash. The post Photo of the Week: Common Camas first appeared on Lireo Designs.