Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum)
Flower of Nodding Onion, La Luz Canyon, Sacramento Mts. Photograph by Wynn Anderson.
- Common English Names: Nodding Onion
- Common Spanish Names: Cebolla
- Scientific Name: Allium cernuum (AL-ee-um sir-NEW-um)
- Family: Liliaceae (Lily Family)
- Geographic Range: Mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona south into Mexico, north to British Columbia, Canada, and east to Georgia.
- Plant Form: Perennial bulb to 15"
- Remarks: Small bulbs often clustered, with a brownish membranous outer coating and producing several long, thin, channeled, green leaves. One or more flowering scapes, erect
but strongly recurved at the end, hold drooping umbels of pink flowers in summer. Full sun to partial shade.
Last Update: 28 May 2004
