Index / Search / Zigadenus elegans ssp. elegans
§1 Plant — subspecies · Liliaceae
Zigadenus elegans Pursh ssp. elegans
vernacular mountain deathcamas
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Liliaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Zigadenus
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 22 of 56 Montana counties.
- Beaverhead 30001
- Big Horn 30003
- Blaine 30005
- Carbon 30009
- Carter 30011
- Cascade 30013
- Chouteau 30015
- Custer 30017
- Daniels 30019
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Glacier 30035
- Granite 30039
- Hill 30041
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Madison 30057
- Park 30067
- Powell 30077
- Richland 30083
- Rosebud 30087
- Teton 30099
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ZIELE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5295813 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-25
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