In amongst a group of grasses and other forbs, several flowering stems, rising from a basal rosette of grassy leaves; the closter of flowers is conical, opening from the bottom up, tiny, white, with prominent white stamens. As the name suggests, this is very toxic.

#Toxicoscordion venenosum, death camas
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#Toxicoscordion is a genus of flowering plants in the family #Melanthiacee, tribe #Melanthieae, first described as a genus in 1903. The genus is mainly distributed in the midwestern United States and western North America, with some species in western Canada and northern Mexico. #FoothillDeathCamas