Wild onion
Allium sp. · Wildflowers
Wild onion
Redwoods, Northern California, 24 April 2025
A tight head of small white, star-shaped flowers on bare stems. The six free tepals, the six stamens with yellow anthers and the green, three-lobed ovary sitting up in the middle of each flower make it an onion rather than one of the brodiaeas that share the look.
Which onion is harder, since a naturalised Neapolitan garlic looks much like the native white-flowered species here in April. A crushed leaf would settle it in a second; the smell is the family's signature.
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