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Photographer: Paul Drobot
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Family Liliaceae
Allium cernuum Roth
nodding wild onion
Allium: Latin for "garlic"
cernuum: drooping, nodding
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | erect, perennial, 1'-2' tall forb, onion odor; from thinly-conical bulb tapering to a stem |
| Flower: | white to pink, 6-parted, 1/4" wide; inflorescence a many-flowered, nodding, rounded cluster (umbel), forming no bulblets; blooms July-Aug. |
| Fruit: | 3-lobed capsule |
| Leaf: | grass-like, almost basal, shorter than the flowering stalk |
| Habitat: | full sun; dry to moderate moisture; prairies, hillsides; in rocky, sandy, loamy, clayey soil |
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