(1) The most significant of the edibles, camas was eaten during the first of many friendly encounters with the Nez Perce along Idaho's Clearwater River.(2) Women gathered roots, prairie turnips, bitterroot, and camas bulbs in the early summer.(3) The horse-rich families with thirty horses apiece would go to hunt for meat and robes or to trade horses for buffalo robes or camas for clothing.(4) The wetter areas support meadows containing Missouri goldenrod, false toadflax, golden-glow, Indian paintbrush, Mariposa lily, death camas , and prairie smoke.(5) Pine nuts were particularly important toward the south and camas bulbs to the north.(6) And if the blossom should be blue as the camas , orange and spotted as the tiger-lily, yellow as the broom or all of these, is it any less beautiful?(7) The bulb of the camas lily, which grows primarily in wet meadows, was a principal plant food.(8) I set out bulbs like daffodils and camas , which have naturalized with gusto.(9) Believing they had left the conflict behind them, they rested, cut tepee poles and cooked camas in preparation for their journey to the buffalo country of eastern Montana.(10) More commonly known as a spring bulb with a vibrant blue flower, quamash is native to Canada and the western United States, and its edible bulb was once a mainstay of native diets.
