Toxicoscordion paniculatum is a species of flowering plant known by the common names foothill deathcamas, panicled death-camas, and sand-corn.

It grows in many types of habitats, including sagebrush plateau, grasslands, forests, and woodlands.

Toxicoscordion paniculatum is a flowering bulb plant that grows 20–70 centimeters (8–28 in) tall when blooming.

[3] Though the flowers being in a panicle is often used as a way to distinguish Toxicoscordion paniculatum from the closely related Toxicoscordion venenosum, the book Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest by Charles Leo Hitchcock and co-authors advises that the more pointed tepals and having bisexual and unisexual flowers on the same plant are more reliable.

[12] The first scientific description of Toxicoscordion paniculatum was by Thomas Nuttall in 1834 with the name Helonias paniculata.

[8] It is also called "sandcorn",[6] "sand corn",[9] or "sand-corn" for the tiny bulbils that surround a parent bulb.

Humans that have mistaken the bulbs for those of wild onions or camas and eaten them have been fatally poisoned.

[11] In 2003 eight people who mistook the bulbs for that of the edible sego lily (Calochortus nuttallii) were poisoned in Juab County, Utah.

[7] Animals are most often poisoned when in pastures containing foothill death camas early in the spring before other plants begin to green up.

[2] 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.

[25] Though well aware of the poisonous nature of the plants, indigenous peoples including the Shoshone, Paiute, and Washoe have made use of crushed bulbs as poultices for a range of aliments.

Foothill death camas can also be intermingled with other bulb plants in perennial boarder gardens.