Re: Nothoscardum

Richard, et al:

When I lived in the South Bay area of SF, I remember
Allium triquetrum being in almost every garden that
had a little extra shade and a little extra moisture. 
Unintentionally, of course.

Could this be the one of which you speak?

Joe Seals
Santa Maria, CA
--- Richard Starkeson <johnsaia@dnai.com> wrote:
> 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
> 


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