Allium canadense, the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion is a perennial plant native to eastern North America from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. The plant is also reportedly naturalized in Cuba.
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- ⭐ Core Definition: Allium canadense
- Allium canadense in the context of Onion
- Allium canadense in the context of Wild onion
Allium canadense in the context of Onion
The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2011. The onion's close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chives.
The genus contains several other species variously called onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion Allium fistulosum, the tree onion Allium × proliferum, and the Canada onion Allium canadense. The name wild onion is applied to a number of Allium species, but A. cepa is exclusively known from cultivation. Its ancestral wild original form is not known, although escapes from cultivation have become established in some regions. The onion is most frequently a biennial or a perennial plant, but is usually treated as an annual and harvested in its first growing season.
View the full Wikipedia page for OnionAllium canadense in the context of Wild onion
Wild onion can refer to
- any uncultivated species in the genus Allium, especially:
- Asphodelus tenuifolius
- Cyperus bulbosus
- Bulbine semibarbata