This property had been owned by the local Camas paper mill for decades.

Just a few miles away at the Camas camp 1100 refugees with a different story to tell are also preparing for winter.

It is a freeway all the way until Camas.

"We don't stand for nothing like that in Camas.

One, Camas, escaped after waking up from the tranquilizer early.

Camas bulbs were an important food source for Native Americans.

Even in the wild, large numbers of camas can color an entire meadow blue-violet.

Water management is a critical component of Camas Refuge operations.

Camas Valley post office was established in July 1870 and is still operating today.

Camas was a lily bulb which was important but dangerous.

Like the mule, camas are sterile, despite both parents having the same number of chromosomes.

The popularity of the library grew over the next decade as Camas experienced rapid industrial growth.

Camas has an organic garden that over the years has been taken care of by different gardeners.

A concert was held in Camas in his honor.

Camas Creek flows through the length of the refuge.

Their main food sources were salmon, sturgeon, and camas.

He was arrested by the Camas police and interviewed by task force detectives.

Kalispel is thought to mean "camas people", referring to the roots that provided their primary food.

The round-up had camped, for the last time, on the river within easy riding distance of Camas.

Plants that are on display include the yellow glacier lily, camas, syringe, and many more.

He won both primaries but chose to withdraw from the Camas County ballot.

The most important were probably bracken and camas; wapato especially for the Duwamish.

Camas from nearby prairies would be gathered or traded.

Passenger service on the Camas Prairie ended in 1955.

The technical name of the camas plant.

Even in the wild, large numbers of quamash can color an entire meadow blue-violet.

The Quamash was a food source for many native peoples in the western United States and Canada.

Common names include Camas, Quamash, Indian hyacinth, and Wild hyacinth.

The plant commonly called camas (Camassia Quamash) was (and still is) an important food source of many Native American groups and was widely traded.

Camassia quamash, commonly known as camas, small camas, common camas or quamash, is a perennial herb.

Camassia quamash - Quamash, Indian Camas, Small Camas.

They relied heavily on quamash or Camassia gathered in the region between the Salmon River (Idaho) and Clearwater River (Idaho) drainages as a food source.

The collective is named in honour of the camas plant (camassia quamash), which was once cultivated and harvested as a root vegetable by the local Lekwungen prior to European settlement.

Later bloomers include the parrot and lily-flowered tulips, wood hyacinth or Spanish blue bell (Hyacinthoides hyspanica), quamash (Camassia cusickii) and Allium giganteum.

The main plant foods gathered were walnuts, saguaro fruits, juniper berries, acorns, sunflower seeds, manzanita berries, hackberries, the bulbs of the Quamash, and the greens of the Lamb's quarters, Scrophularia, and Lupinus plants.

As the blustery winter winds subside and the soil warms, a spring bulb display can include several particularly spectacular flowers, The handsome Pacific Coast native Camassia esculenta, or quamash, is a bulb prized as food by American Indians.

When the mud settled, they planted water lilies, yellow flag irises and Indian hyacinths that quickly naturalized.

Common names include Camas, Quamash, Indian hyacinth, and Wild hyacinth.

The increased popularity of giving native plants their head makes a good case for planting camassia.

The group was reduced to a tribe by Endlicher in 1836, and included Camassia.

Among them are Chlorogalum, Camassia and the family Anthericaceae.

It may be that the plants did not find enough root room because daffodil and camassia bulbs fill that space for spring bloom.

A mass of blue camassia could surprise you in that low, moist spot where joe-pye weed thrives in late summer.

They fished salmon, hunted game, and ate camassia roots and berries they gathered.

Camassia Lindl.

The Camassia - Will it Supplant the Potato?

Check list of the plants of the Camassia Natural Area : vascular plants.

Camassia scilloides (N)

Gould, Frank W. A systematic treatment of the genus Camassia Lindl.

Camas (Camassia spp.)

Camassia scilloides is a perennial herb also known as the Atlantic camas and Southern Wild Hyacinth.

The name of the valley and the community come from the abundance of Camassia growing in the area; it was an important food source for the local Native Americans.

The plant commonly called camas (Camassia Quamash) was (and still is) an important food source of many Native American groups and was widely traded.

The Nature Conservancy maintains the Camassia Natural Area in central West Linn as one of its conservancy preserves.

When the Liliaceae was split, in some treatments Camassia was placed in a family called Hyacinthaceae (now the subfamily Scilloideae).

Camassia scilloides - Atlantic Camas, Bear grass (occurs in the eastern United States in North America.

The EPCP program recently has evolved into the Camassia Institute, named after the indigenous Camas plant, a subsidiary body of the Lost Valley organization.

Some genera that were formerly placed within the Scillioideae (as Hyacinthaceae), e.g., Chlorogalum and Camassia, are currently placed in the Agavoideae.

DNA and biochemical studies have led the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to reassign Camassia to the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae.

GETTING THERE - The Camassia Natural Area is about eight miles south of Portland, Ore.

These studies also give support to the exclusion of Camassia, Chlorogalum and related genera, i.e. the former Hyacinthaceae subfamily Chlorogaloideae, now placed in the subfamily Agavoideae.

The collective is named in honour of the camas plant (camassia quamash), which was once cultivated and harvested as a root vegetable by the local Lekwungen prior to European settlement.

It is named for the camas root, or Camassia, a lily-like plant with an edible bulb found in the region, which was used as a food source by Native Americans and settlers.