quamash
Americannoun
noun
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Broad steps that intersect with an adjacent planting bed generously planted with Camassia quamash and C. leichtilinii will provide a front-row seat for the spring display when showy stalks of blue, star-shaped flowers appear.
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It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state, or boiled into a kind of soup, or made into a cake, which is called pasheco.
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In early summer the best forage is on the warm hill-sides where the quamash and the Indian turnip grow.
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I killed a small black pheasant near the quamash grounds this evening which is the first I have seen below the snowy region.
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It is called quamash, and is eaten either in its natural state or boiled into a kind of soup or made into a cake, which is then called pasheco.
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