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Wild onion can refer to any uncultivated species in the genus Allium, especially: Allium bisceptrum; Allium canadense; Allium tricoccum; Allium validum; Allium vineale;
Allium obtusum is a species of wild onion known by the common name red Sierra onion or subalpine onion.It is native to eastern California and western Nevada.It is a common plant in the granite foothills and mountains of the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range, from Tulare County to Siskiyou County, from elevations of 800 to 3,500 metres (2,600 to 11,500 ft).
Allium canadense, the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion [6] is a perennial plant native to eastern North America [a] from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. [7] The plant is also reportedly ...
An Onion Johnny, his bicycle laden with onions and garlic, in London, 2008. The name 'the Big Onion' was formerly used of New York City, before it became 'the Big Apple', and Chicago became 'the Big Onion'. [26] The 10th century Exeter Book, written in Old English, contains a riddle which seems to be about an onion, with sexual overtones. The ...
Allium vineale (wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic or stag's garlic) is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and the Middle East. [2] The species was introduced in Australia and North America , where it has become an Invasive species .
Allium atrorubens is a species of wild onion known by the common name dark red onion.This plant is native to the southwestern United States where it grows in the sandy soils of the Mojave Desert, the Great Basin and higher-elevation deserts in Nevada, eastern California (San Bernardino, Kern, Mono, Inyo and Lassen Counties) southwestern Utah (Kane, Millard and Beaver Counties), northwestern ...
Allium lemmonii is a species of wild onion known by the common name Lemmon's onion, named for botanist John Gill Lemmon (1831–1908). [3] It is native to the western United States, at elevations of 1200–1900 m in the Great Basin of Utah, Nevada, northern and eastern California, eastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho.
Allium macrum, the rock onion, is an American species of wild onion native to the eastern and central parts of the US States of Oregon and Washington. It grows on gravelly soils at elevations up to 1400 m. [3] [4] It is a perennial herb. [5] Allium macrum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 2 cm long. Flowers are white to pale pink with a ...