Kootenay Camas Project
Budding. Will bloom soon.
Rocky cliff site with shallow soil pockets. Moisture receiving.
With mosses. Danthonia spicata. Erythronium grandiflorum.
Sparse patches distributed in appropriate micro sites across cliff area.
Camas growing in small meadow by the side of Highway 6.
Death camas interspersed.
Lots of camas, incl. death camas. On class trip with Eva, Valerie and Brenda.
10-100 plants in various stages some in flower
Pend d 'oreille.
Square stemmed not minty smelling. Some inundated. None yet in flower.
Sutherlands
Hab. Steep road cut ten m high. Glacial till. Mix of angular less angular. 30 degree slope. All at top of cut. Lots of exposed soil.
Buck brush red stem ceanothus. Ninebark. Choke cherry. Snowberry.
Oregon grape. Doug fir.
Lupiser. Tritgra. Spireae. Quack. Western wheatgrass. Poacan. Bromtec. Collar. Centbie. Apocand. Cinquefoil. Hawthorn.
With artemisia dra. Lupiser elymtra. Blue bunch wheatgrass. Allicer lotuuni hespspa Riverbank with cobbles.
On antenna trail above montrose.
With Koeleria macrantha, Pseudoroegneria spicata, Syphoricarpus albus, Paxistima myrsinites, Linaria dalmatica, Rumex acetosella.
Shallow soil angular rock. Level.
Small number of standing dried stalks.
Report by Herb that it occurs at mouth of Blueberry Creek.
Horse pasture all grazed. Fenced. Extremely sparse camas, visible in distance.
The Kootenay Camas Project is a citizen-science initiative that seeks to focus attention on the ethnobotanical and natural importance of Camassia quamash (common camas) in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.
Camas was an important part of First Nations' cultures who gathered, ate and traded it extensively. In addition, camas is a low-elevation species associated with mois... ...more ↓
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created this project on March 17, 2012
