Flora of East-Central Indiana

Wild Hyacinth
Scientific Name Camassia scilliodes  (Raf.) Cory
Family Name Liliaceae (Lily Family)

 

Habitat: prairies and moist, open woods
Plant Height: 15-60 cm, erect scape, rhizome
Flower Color: blue to lavender to white
Flower: sepals and petals 3 each (often referred to as tepals), colored alike making a 6-pointed flower; pedicles to 1 cm elongating in fruit; glabrous; stamens 6, opposite tepals; ovary superior, glabrous with 3 locules, many seeded, stigma 3-lobed; subtended by small bracts
Inflorescence: non-determinate raceme with many (40 or more) flowers
Fruit: several-seeded capsule, triangular to spherical
Leaves: basal; linear; entire; keeled (sharp, longitudinal ridge)
Bloom Time: April-May
Origins: native
Other: bulbs of plant were used by Native Americans and early explorers for food; quick bloomer

Characteristics
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general habit raceme close of flower cluster leaves

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Environmental Education Center
Ball State University, Muncie, IN



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