May 10, 2014…as I was driving to Eugene, Oregon, we spotted fields of this beautiful plant. I asked about it and was referred to Heiko Koester, a garden consultant who specializes in edible, medicinal, and native plants.
Heiko Koester says, “The plant you saw was either Camassia leichtlinii or Camassia quamash. If it was knee-high or taller it was probably the former, if shorter probably the latter. Ethnobotanically speaking they are both fairly interchangeable.”
May 10, 2014…a honeybee can be seen looking for the perfect pollen source. In the video you can see the bee using her mandibles to pull the pollen off.
May 10, 2014…bee in flight over Camas. The flower-bee relationship can be seen when the flower opens a petal so the bee can get to the pollen. I missed it the first few times, so I marked it in the video.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 