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Asparagaceae

Camassia

Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene

First published in Man. Bot. San Francisco: 313 (1894)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is W. Canada to W. U.S.A. It is a bulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Taxonomy

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Native to:

Alberta, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

Homotypic Synonyms

Anthericum quamash (Pursh) Steud. in Nomencl. Bot. 1: 54 (1821)
Camassia leichtlinii var. watsonii M.E.Jones in Contr. W. Bot. 14: 29 (1912)
Phalangium quamash Pursh in Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 226 (1813)
Quamasia quamash (Pursh) Coville in Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 11: 64 (1898)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002). Flora of North America North of Mexico 26: 1-723. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2002). Flora of North America North of Mexico 26: 1-723. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0