Re: Nothoscardum
- Subject: Re: Nothoscardum
- From: R* S*
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:37:06 -0700
For the California readers, does anyone know the name of the weed-like onion
that grows all over the SF bay area? (Dormant this time of year). Unlike
Nothoscardium, it has a strong onion-like smell. Flowers look very much the
same. White bulbs, round, about 1 cm in diameter, several inches below the
surface (no bulbils to speak of) and resembles the green onion sold in
stores. I note that Cal Flora lists 45 species of allium in California.
david feix wrote:
> --- p.k.peirce@att.net wrote:
> > The nothoscardum in my San Francisco City College
> > teaching garden has no scent, and has been
> > identified by
> > the California Natural History Herbarium as N.
> > inodorum.
> > It has bulbs with many bulblets which are very deep
> > in
> > the soil, almost below the depth of an average
> > shovel.
> > When you get them, you see that some of the bulbs
> > are
> > white, so you can see them against the soil, while
> > others are brown, so blend in.
>
> Thanks to all for helping identify the correct name of
> this weedy plant, I apoogize for falsely maligning the
> Nectaroscordum genus in the process
