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Wild hyacinth flowers have six slender, light blue to white tepals, six stamens with yellow anthers, and a slender style emerging from a green, egg-shaped ovary; the style has tripartite tip. The flowers are each supported by a slender pedicel. Wild hyacinth is very similar to prairie hyacinth (Camassia angusta), but the latter blooms later, is much less common, has thread-like bracts beneath each flower pedicel, 4-5 thread-like bracts on the flower stalk beneath the flowers, and differ (mostly) in details of the seed capsule. Prairie hyacinth has not yet been found in Jackson Park.

Camassia

Camassia scilloides

wild hyacinth [Blooms: May-Jun]