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Allium moly, also known as yellow garlic, [4] golden garlic and lily leek, Is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium, which also includes the flowering and culinary onions and garlic. A bulbous herbaceous perennial from the Mediterranean.
Allium stellatum, commonly known as the autumn onion, prairie onion, [1] cliff onion, [2] or glade onion, [3] is a North American species of wild onion in the Amaryllidaceae family that is native to central Canada and the central United States.
A blooming onion, also called onion bloom, onion blossom, onion flower, bloomin' onion, or onion mum, is a dish consisting of one large onion, cut to resemble a flower (after it has expanded while soaking in ice water), battered, and deep-fried, often served with dipping sauce. It is served as an appetizer at some restaurants. [1]
Onions are a cool-weather crop and can be grown in USDA zones 3 to 9. [67] Hot temperatures or other stressful conditions cause them to "bolt", meaning that a flower stem begins to grow. [68] Onions are grown from seeds or from partially grown bulbs called "sets" or starter bulbs. Onion seeds are short-lived and fresh seeds germinate more ...
The flowers form an umbel at the top of a leafless stalk. The bulbs vary in size between species, from small (around 2–3 mm in diameter) to rather large (8–10 cm). Some species (such as Welsh onion A. fistulosum and leeks (A. ampeloprasum)) develop thickened leaf-bases rather than forming bulbs as such.
Bulbine bulbosa, commonly known as bulbine lily, native leek, golden lily, or native onion, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a perennial herb with thick roots, channelled leaves, and yellow flowers with hairy stamen filaments .
Allium schubertii, which has various common names including ornamental onion, flowering onion, tumbleweed onion and Persian onion, is a species of monocotyledonous flowering plant. It belongs to the onion and garlic genus , in the subfamily Allioideae of the family Amaryllidaceae .
Allium hollandicum, the Persian onion [1] [2] or Dutch garlic, [3] is a species of flowering plant native to Iran and Kyrgyzstan [4] but widely cultivated as an ornamental because of its umbels of attractive purple flowers. [5] [6] [7] It is reportedly naturalized in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. [8] [9] [10]