The iconic beauty of camas can add a wild elegance and sense of place to your flower bed or landscape. Common camas and greater camas are local native plants, dramatic and unmistakable seasonal wildflowers.
Why Grow Camas?
Camas isn’t just a pretty face — it’s a plant with deep cultural roots and ecological value.
An easy to grow and tough plant, it thrives on wet sites and even heavy clay soils. Camas is a major attraction for many pollinators, including honeybees, native bees, bumblebees, hover flies, and ladybugs.
It is also a staple food and trade resource for indigenous peoples throughout the Pacific northwest.
Growing Camas
Plant camas bulbs in the fall, they will flower in spring.
They mix well with other native flowers and grasses, and are equally at home in bulb gardens and flower beds. Camas can also be planted from seed, but will take several years to flower.