Wild Onion, Autumn Onion, Allium stellatum, Native Minnesota Wildflower plant, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Plants of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
	Common Name	Scientific Name	Plant Family	Garden Location	Prime Season
	Wild Onion	Allium stellatum Fraser ex Ker Gawl.	Lily	Upland	Late Summer to Early Autumn
Other names and notes	(Autumn Onion). Wild onions have either flowers or small bulblets in an umbel. This plant has whitish to pink 6-part flowers with protruding stamens or stamens at least as long as the sepals (no petals). The flower form on an erect umbrel. Leaves are basal with pointed ends. Plants are usually a foot tall and only visible along the path edges of the Garden. The species names means "starry".


Flowers above and right from mid-August, seeds below of late Sept.

Notes: This plant is native to Minnesota, mostly the western half of the state, plus eastward in the central region to the Wisconsin border including Hennepin, Dakota and Washington Counties. In some states it is considered a noxious weed.

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References: Plant characteristics are generally from sources 15, 16, 30, 31, 33, W2 & W3. Distribution principally from W2 and also 31, 34 and W1. Planting history generally from 1, 4 & 4a. Other sources by specific reference. See Reference List for details.

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