Nodding Onion

Allium cernuum, known as nodding onion or lady's leek,^[4] is a perennial plant in the genus Allium. It grows in open areas in North America.

Allium cernuum is a herbaceous perennial growing from an unsheathed elongated conical bulb which gradually tapers directly into several keeled (thin and flat) grass-like leaves, 2–4 millimetres (3⁄32–5⁄32 inch) in width. Each mature bulb bears a single flowering stem, which terminates in a downward nodding umbel of white or rose, campanulate (bell-shaped) flowers that bloom in July and August. The flowers are arranged into downward facing umbels and each flower is about 5 mm (3⁄16 in) across, pink or white with yellow pollen and yellow anthers. A. cernuum does not have bulblets in the inflorescence.^[5] The flowers mature into spherical crested fruits which later split open to reveal the dark shiny seeds.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}