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RE: Killerwhale KillerPix Contest Entry #2: Camas Flowers
Wow! You really need to be careful. They are beautiful flowers and I do like the photo with the two bees! How would the mark the plants since the leaves look so similar...
What we were told is that first of all, the best camas patches were held by specific families so generation after generation they would try to pluck the death camas out of the patch. Each spring when they flowered, they would go take a couple of the bottom leaves and tie them in a knot, close to the base of the plant. As the leaves withered and died they would form a clump over the knot that was fairly easy to spot when harvesting.
Ingenious idea. You wouldn't want you family to die because you made a mistake picking the wrong plant.
I am thinking it would keep husbands from getting too lippy too... "Hey Honey, I just picked the fresh camas and cooked some up special for you..." ;)