Showing posts with label Meriwether Lewis. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Fields of Blooms

Camas lilies and lupines are in full bloom all over Camas County.

Camas lily (Camassia quamash)
















Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, wrote of the camas lily in his journal in the spring of 1806: "The quawmash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete in this deseption that on first sight I could have sworn it was water."


























Yellow headed blackbird found in the Camas Prairie Centennial Marsh







































Wild lupine (Lupinus perennis)