Stunningly ornamental rounded lilac-coloured flowers!

Allium canadense, the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion is a perennial plant native to eastern North America from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. The plant is also reportedly naturalized in Cuba.

The narrow, grass-like leaves originate near the base of the stem, which is topped by a dome-like cluster of star-shaped, pink or white flowers. When present, the flowers are hermaphroditic (both male and female organs) and are pollinated by American bees (not honeybees) and other insects. It typically flowers in the spring and early summer, from May to June. Deer resistant.

Type: Hardy perennial

Hardiness zones: 4-9

Height: 12", 30cm

Location: Sun

Seeds per packet: 5

Image is an illustration and representation. Regretfully no photo is available.

By Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 1: 499. Courtesy of Kentucky Native Plant Society. - http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ALCA3&photoID=alca3_001_avd.tif, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2437198