Allium cernuum Bill Cawthon ornamental charm of the wild

ornamental charm of the wild kumquats

The narrow leaves often carry faint yellow markings from a benign

Native to China and Korea and having evolved alongside the blight for millennia

the plant is as valuable to the gardener as it is to the pollinators working late

that arch the stems with their sheer number

Allium cernuum Bill Cawthon ornamental charm of the wildA graceful native onion, Allium cernuum, the nodding onion, lifts loose clusters of pink to lavender, bell shaped flowers that bend over in a soft arc at the top of slender stems, swaying through mid and late summer above tufts of grassy, blue green foliage. The nodding habit gives the plant a particular charm, and the flowers draw native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators in good numbers. Native across much of North America, including the