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Toxicoscordion paniculatum
Also called Deadly Zigadenus, Foothill Death Camas, Meadow Death Camas, Foothill Deathcamas, Panicled Death Camas
Sand corn is a bulbous perennial wildflower of western North America, with panicles of white to pale yellow-white flowers on stems 20 to 70 cm tall. Its bulbs and leaves are poisonous, so treat it as a wild native to observe rather than a garden plant to handle.
Toxicoscordion paniculatum is a species of flowering plant known by the common names foothill deathcamas, panicled death-camas, and sand-corn. It is widely distributed across much of the western United States, especially in the mountains and deserts of the Great Basin region west of the Rocky Mountains. It grows in many types of habitats, including sagebrush plateau, grasslands, forests, and woodlands.
Toxicoscordion paniculatum grows in every state of the contiguous United States from the Rocky Mountains westward and into northern Mexico. In the United States it found almost entirely west of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico, while growing in a few scattered, isolated populations in Montana. To the west the foothill death camas grows in every county of Utah and Nevada while mainly growing in the southern portion of Idaho. It is found in the drier eastern areas of both Washington state and Oregon. In California it is found widely north of San Francisco Bay in inland areas of the Northern Coast Ranges and the Klamath Mountains and is found in the Sierra Nevadas from the north to the southern end of the range. It is only found in the northern parts of Arizona. In Mexico it grows in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora.
Desert Deathcamas · Giant Deathcamas · Smallflower Deathcamas · Fremont's Death Camas · Smallflower Deathcamas · Nuttall's Death Camas · Meadow death camas · Deathcamas
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Toxicoscordion paniculatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
