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quite a few places around here with lots and lots of camas bulbs -- I had an agreement with a down-the-road neighbor to dig camas in her yard --- two unfortunate things happened
1) her hubby took a better job out of state so they sold out, and I haven't befriended the new owners
2) we were still on Maui when the camas bloomed, so I couldn't have marked where the plants were anyway
still many places with "violet meadow" in their names .... and I suspect I can mark and dig a few at the place where we bought all the PVC pipe this year ... but it's much nicer to have the bulbs all ready for planting, no fear of slicing them with a spade
Oh, there's lots and lots of violets on Violet Prairie (and at Mima Mounds and the Littlerock Glacial Prairie Preserve). Camas is Lacamas (and Lacamas School, up on Bald Hill Road, is somewhere that camas has been wiped out). It's just that when I was in grade school most of Yelm Prairie was also still blue, excluding the places where the ditch had brought truck farming: even then, the roadside was full of camas, violets, wild sunflower and Oregon Sunshine, harebells, Fritillaria lanceolata, catchfly, cous (Lomatium sp), and Indian paintbrush. All it takes to eradicate those plants is to mow three years in a row in April and May. Yelm Cemetary was a delight when I was young; our 4H club used to go up and clean out around the graves and the flagpole right before Memorial Day, and certain families (notably some of the Lomgmires) had their graves fenced so they couldn't be mowed at all, so there were patches of prairie all around.