Liliaceae Allium cernuum Roth

Nodding Onion

Ojibwa - Food, Vegetable

Use documented by:
Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 406

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Scientific name: Allium cernuum Roth
USDA symbol: ALCEC2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Nodding Onion
Family: Liliaceae
Family (APG): Nartheciaceae
Native American Tribe: Ojibwa
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Vegetable
Notes: Used in the spring as an article of food, the small wild onion was sweet.

RECRD: 64 id: 2150

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