Mountain Death Camas
Anticlea elegans
Mountain death camas, formerly filed under Zigadenus, with starry cream flowers each marked by a green heart-shaped gland at the base of the petal. Handsome in an alpine bed, and genuinely poisonous in every part — bulb included. Site it where it will not be mistaken for an edible bulb.
- Family
- Melanthiaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 0.8–2.5 ft
- Spacing
- 0.3–0.8 ft apart
- Light
- sun, part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- white, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators
- Landscape uses
- naturalizing, border
- Native states
- AK, AZ, CO, IA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY