Zigadenus venenosus

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Zigadenus venenosus
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Poisonous

Zigadenus venenosus (common name: death camas) is a white flower with a poisonous bulb indistinguishable from the edible common camas bulb at harvest. The Nez Perce tribe would weed camas fields with their blue flowers in summer to remove the death camas plants with their white flowers.