Great White Camas Seeds (Camassia leichtlinii ssp. leichtlinii)

This beautiful creamy-white-flowered plant is a Great Camas subspecies from southern Oregon. Flowering in mid-spring, great white camas is at home in wet swales, partially-shaded hardwood thickets, and grassy slopes. Forming almost tennis-ball sized bulbs at maturity, this is a plant with typically high seedling germination rates, but very slow growth -- ultimately flowering and reaching 2 to 3 feet in height after 5 to 7 years of maturity. One interesting feature of great camas is that individual plants may not flower every year, and rather may remain dormant in some years when growing conditions are not optimal. Great white camas benefits from cold-wet winter exposure to initiate germination. Starting in containers can be useful to identify and segregate individual plants, however direct seeding, even into existing stands of vegetation can be effective. Note that germination usually occurs in late winter or early spring, after a prolonged wet winter period, initially forming a singl