Wild Onion

(Allium canadense)

Wild onion

Leaves Flowers and Bulbheads
Wild onion leaves Wild Onion flowers bulbheads

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