Allium cernuum Roth

Nodding onion

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Nodding onions have long narrow grass-like leaves about a foot in length and ¼" (6.3 mm) in width. A rosette of leaves at the base of the plant is vase-shaped. They lack the bulbs present in most other members of the onion family (onions are members of the lily family).

Identification: The most obvious feature of this plant is the one that gives it its common name—the flowerhead tilts or nods, a result of a small crook near the top of the stem.

Online References:

Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness

Illinois Wildflowers

The Oregon Flora Image Project

Plants for a Future, a resource and information centre for edible and otherwise useful plants

The Vanderbilt University Bioimages web site

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Wikimedia Commons

The Missouri Botanical Garden

EFloras

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 6 × 7" (16 × 16 cm)

6/17/2012 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
≈ 3½ × 5" (9.2 × 13 cm)

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 5 × 6" (13 × 15 cm)

8/1/2009 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
≈ 6 × 4" (14 × 9.9 cm)

Allium cernuum description by Thomas H. Kent, last updated 25 May 2020.

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8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 8 × 9" (19 × 22 cm)

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 6 × 7" (15 × 17 cm)

8/1/2009 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine
≈ 22 × 25" (55 × 62 cm)

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 11 × 12" (28 × 31 cm)

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 6 × 8" (15 × 19 cm)

8/30/2014 · New Mex­ico
≈ 9 × 8" (22 × 20 cm)

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