Son plantas herbáceas, perennes y bulbosas, de hojas lineales y arrosetadas. Las flores son actinomorfas o zigomorfas y hermafroditas, azules, purpúreas, blancas o amarillentas, pediceladas, dispuestas en racimos en la extremidad de un largo escapo bracteado. El perigonio está compuesto de 6 tépalos libres y extendidos. El androceo está formado por 6 estambres, insertos en la base de los tépalos. Los filamentos son filiformes y las anteras son dorsifijas. El ovario es súpero, trilocular y con los lóculos pluriovulados. El estilo es filiforme y el estigma es trífido. El fruto es una cápsula dehiscente.

El género fue descrito por John Lindley y publicado en Edwards's Botanical Register 18: pl. 1486. 1832.^[2]​ La especie tipo es: Camassia esculenta Lindl.

• Camassia angusta
• Camassia cusickii
• Camassia howellii

• Camassia leichtlinii
• Camassia quamash.
• Camassia scilloides

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• Camas Prairie in Idaho
• Flora of North America
• Native Plants of the Great Lakes
• Southeastern Rare Plant Information Network - SERPIN
• Native Plant Information Network

• Camas Meadows at Washington State University Archivado el 3 de marzo de 2016 en Wayback Machine.
• Camassia Natural Area (Oregon - Nature Conservancy)
• Camassia Slopes Preserve (North Carolina - Nature Conservancy)