On 7 May 08, at 9:36, Diana Chapman wrote: > I don't know how to upload to the wiki, but I have just posted a > picture of a pink flowered Camassia leichtlinii on my blog: > http://www.thebulbmaven.typepad.com/. Has anyone ever seen a pink flowered > Camassia before? Mine originated in Oregon, and apparently the parent > population was wiped out by road widening. I once saw a "pink" Camassia in local park, but the hour was late, the sun low, and the light reddening, so just HOW pink it was, I do not know. It could have been either C. leichtlinii subsp. suksdorfii (the common large blue-violet camas found in the Puget Sound & Georgia Strait region) or C. quamash, the smaller one. If this "pink" camas I saw (or perhaps hallucinated) really was a pink, I suspect it was a rather dirty color. Camas seems to have two pigments which in combination give the deep violet common form, a blue and a dirty pink. Oddly enough, white- and pale blue-flowered forms are fairly common if you sniff around odd corners of the city, but heaven help you if you are so foolish as to bring these into your garden: they have the same propensity for abandoned self-sowing that Hyacinthoides does. And, worse, the bulbs go down to China and are very difficult (sc. impossible) to eradicate once established. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island