The pastures have areas with many of these beautiful flowers this year, usually there are only a few of this species and in wet years a much wider variety of wild flowers will be present. I believe the abundance of this plant may be a result of our severe drought. Unfortunately this plant is Death Camas which is deadly to livestock and people (it can be mistaken for wild onion that is good to eat, but Death Camas does not smell like onion). Fortunately cattle don't eat it if there is plenty of grass available. We will need to be ready to move the cattle to a new pasture before they are out of adequate grass in each pasture.
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