camass , także: camas , także: quamash

Among the vegetable side dishes, for example, the Makah no longer offer camass, a small wild bulb that was steamed in seaweed covered with sand.

It preserves a seepage wetland that supports a large collection of rare plants, including camass, bog-buttons, fringed orchids, and purple pitcher plants.

The Nez Perce Indians gave them a feast of salmon, trout and bulbs of the local camass plant, a cross between an onion and a tuber.

'Interesting Plant Community' Those plants were prairie dropseed, white camass, rams-head slipper, Crawe's sedge, Indian paintbrush, yellow rock harlequin, early buttercup and needle-leaf starwort.