Wild Onion (Allium geyeri)

   
 

Flowers of Allium geyeri, near Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Photograph by Wynn Anderson.

• Common English Names: Wild Onion, Geyer Onion
• Common Spanish Names: Cebolla
• Scientific Name: Allium geyeri (AL-ee-um GUY-er-eye)
• Family: Liliaceae (Lily Family)
• Geographic Range: Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas to New Mexico, Arizona, north to Alberta, Canada.
• Plant Form: Perennial Bulb to 12".
• Remarks: Bulbs usually solitary but sometimes clustered, held in a brown fibrous outer coat and producing 3 leaves and erect umbels of 10 to 25 pink to white flowers from July to September.

Last Update: 16 Aug 2013