A member of a species of poisonousperennialfloweringplants, Toxicoscordion venenosum (species) (formerly Zigadenus venosus), easily confused with the edible camas, whose bulbs (rhizomes) look like, but do not smell like, like onion.
A member of any of various similar species, also called star lily, of tribe Melanthieae (tribe) in family Melanthiaceae, and formerly grouped into the genus Zigadenus (only Zigadenus glaberrimus (species) remains there).
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