Camassia scilloides is a perennial herb known commonly as Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth, and eastern camas.[1] It is native to the eastern half of North America, including Ontario and the eastern United States.[1]
The species produces inflorescences up to half a meter tall from a bulb wide.[2] It has a few leaves, each up to NaNcm (-2,147,483,648inches) long. The flowers have light blue or whitish tepals and yellow anthers. The green or brown capsule is up to a centimeter long and divided into three parts.
Native American groups used the bulbs for food, eating them raw, baked, roasted, boiled, or dried.[3] They can be used in place of potatoes, but could possibly be confused for poisonous deathcamas.
The superseded name Camassia esculenta (Ker Gawl.) B.L.Rob. (nom. illeg.)[4] should not be confused with Camassia esculenta (Nutt.) Lindl., a superseded name for Camassia quamash subsp. quamash.[5]