Wild Onion
(Allium canadense)
Leaves | Flowers and Bulbheads |
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Growing habit: Erect herbaceous perennial herb from underground bulb
Root/stem anatomy: Fibrous, attached to bulb with brown fibrous outer coat, white and shiny underneath
Leaves: Mostly basal, flat but noticeably keeled, narrowly linear, soft, flaccid, not hollow, distinct onion odor
Reproduction: Roundish cluster of pink flowers atop a scape; aerial bulbets emerge from within flower
Reference: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice