General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 6a -23.3 °C (-10 °F) to -20.6 °C (-5 °F)
Plant Height: 6 - 18 inches
Plant Spread: 3 - 6 inches
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Fruit: Dehiscent
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Lavender
White
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Late spring or early summer
Underground structures: Bulb
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Other info: Sow in fall.
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Pollinators: Bees

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Common names
  • Wild Hyacinth
  • Atlantic Camas
  • Blue Camas
  • Quamash
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Camassia scilloides
  • Synonym: Quamasia hyacinthina

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Date: 2020-05-15
Location: Northern Illinois (Zone 5a)
Date: 2016-05-19
Location: front pasture
Date: 2017-03-21
Location: Kentucky
Date: 2024-04-15
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2019-04-17
Wild Hyacinth - Camassia scilloides 001
Uploaded by SongofJoy
Location: home garden 
Date: 2016-06-07
 large mustard size seed from cherry size pod
Location: Vienna, VA
Date: 2017-07-20
Location: Kyle, Texas
Date: 2018-03-21
Lightly fragrant, this wild hyacinth comes back every year
Location: my garden 
Date: 2016-06-07
cherry size green seed pods

Date: 2004-04-21
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/

Date: 2004-04-21
Steven J. Baskauf http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/
Location: Northern Illinois (Zone 5a)
Date: 2016-05-19
Uploaded by SongofJoy

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