Our deer don’t usually eat barrenwort so I think there is something putting pressure on their food sources. I’ve had this plant for 11 years with no grazing by the local deer.#gardening #deerproof #perennials #nature #whitetail #wildlife

From his journal, as he wrote it:

“The quamash is now in blume and from the colour of its bloom and at a short distance it resembles lakes of fine clear water, so complete is this deseption that on first sight I could have swoarn it was water.”
– Meriwether Lewis, June 12, 1806 (Lewis & Clark Expedition).

https://lewis-clark.org/sciences/plants/camas/

#DeerProof #Bulbs
#gardening #NativePlants #Horticulture #Botany #GardenHistory #Camassia #GardeningMastodon #MeriwetherLewis

Camas - Discover Lewis & Clark

The Nez Perce gave Clark and his six hunters "roots in different States, Some round and much like an onion which they call quamash."

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