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.
