Allium cernuum

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Allium cernuum

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wild or cultivated


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WILD ONION. Western New York to Wisconsin and southward. This and A. canadense formed almost the entire source of food for Marquette[1] and his party on their journey from Green Bay to the present site of Chicago in the fall of 1674.

  1. Case Bot. Index 34. 1880.
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


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