Wild onion
Dec 15, 2019 16:54:49 #
Nodding wild onion - Allium cernuum - from Liliaceae, the lily family. I like this plant a lot so it gets a lot of attention. I noticed some seed heads poking up through the snow the other day and brought them in to stack. The seed heads are about 1 3/4 inches in diameter and the individual seeds about 1/16th of an inch. A dime in the one image shows the size of the seeds. The last image is a field stack back in late August.
In March I posted a series of photos showing bud and blossom stages and some more information about this plant. As I mentioned in that post, the city of Chicago gets its name from the Algonquin Indian name for this plant, chigagou.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-584052-1.html
Mike
Nodding wild onion 1 on Flickr
Nodding wild onion 2 on Flickr
Nodding wild onion 3 on Flickr
Nodding wild onion 3 on Flickr
In March I posted a series of photos showing bud and blossom stages and some more information about this plant. As I mentioned in that post, the city of Chicago gets its name from the Algonquin Indian name for this plant, chigagou.
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-584052-1.html
Mike
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