Liliaceae Allium cernuum Roth
Nodding Onion
Navajo, Ramah - Food, Unspecified
Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 20
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Allium cernuum Roth
Scientific name: Allium cernuum Roth
USDA symbol: ALCEC2 (
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Common names: Nodding Onion
Family: Liliaceae
Family (APG): Nartheciaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Unspecified
Notes: Bulbs, never the tops, eaten raw, with fried or boiled meat.
RECRD: 10406 id: 2148