RE: Allium
perennials@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: Allium
  • From: &* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:18:23 -0400

Nancy, my first thought was that it is a white form of Allium cernuum, my standard-colored pinkish ones are blooming now.  But there don’t seem to be as many flowers as I would have expected.  See:

 

http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/nod_onionx.htm

 

So I looked around for other nodding white varieties.  I found a few like A triquetrum and A paradoxum var normale, but their flowers are more bell-like and they don’t have the “exserted stamens, and an ovary with a style.  “ as A cernuum does. AND as do the flowers in your photo.

 

So, unless I come across something else or if someone else has something to contribute, it does seem like some version of Allium cernuum.

 

Kitty

 

 

 

From: owner-perennials@hort.net [mailto:owner-perennials@hort.net] On Behalf Of Nancy Robinson
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 6:21 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: FW: Allium

 


 



 Anyone know this Allium?  It is still here after zero degrees and ice last year.  Thanks, Nancy



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