Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Pink ), 0 by htop

htop wrote:
Wild Garlic, Drummond's Onion, Drummond Wild Onion, Prairie Onion (Allium drummondii), Alliaceae Family, Texas native, perennial, bulb, blooms March through May

This is the most widely distributed wild onion species in Texas growing natively in various soils and vegetative areas. The 3/4 inch wide blooms have tepals not petals, appear on a slender flower stem, are clustered in an umbel and may be a variety of hues from white to pale pink to dark rose. They produce shiny black seeds. An asexual form produces tiny bulbets at the tips of the flower stalks. This species may be distinguished from Allium canadense by examining the underground bulbs. The outer covering of Allium drummondii bulbs are papery; wheras, Allium canadense bulbs have a criss-cross fiber-type coating surrounding them. Both smell oniony and both types of bulbs are edible. Just do not confuse them with crow-poison, false garlic (Nothoscordum bivalve) which neither smells like garlic nor onion and is poisonous.

Caution: Crow-poison shown at the link below is poisonous:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55467/index.html

Drummond wild onion Texas county distribution:
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Texas&statefip...

For more information, see its entry in the PlantFiles:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55460/index.html

Very closeup view of blooms in different stages of maturity with small critters visiting them ...