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Published In: Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 18: 195. 1907. (Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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1. Camassia angusta (Engelm. & A. Gray) Blank. (wild hyacinth)

Pl. 101 d; Map 406

Aerial stems (25–)40–110 cm long, with (1–)3–24 linear, bractlike leaves below the lowermost flowers. Inflorescences with (30–)50–100 flowers (including stalks remaining after spent flowers have fallen off). Perianth 7–10(–13) mm long, deep to pale lavender to pale purple. Styles 2.5–5.5 mm long. Fruits erect or nearly so, the stalks 5–20 mm long, arched upward. 2n=30. Early May–late June.

Scattered in a diagonal band from the Unglaciated Plains Division to the northeastern portion of the Glaciated Plains Division (Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa southwest to Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas). Mesic upland prairies and savannas, sometimes in rocky areas.

In areas where the two species occur together, the plants of C. angusta bloom significantly later and have more purplish, deeply colored flowers than those of C. scilloides.

 


 

 
 
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