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Allium cernuum
Nodding Onion / Nodding Wild Onion
Easy to identify by its distinctive, nodding, pastel lilac-pink flowers in late spring, Nodding Onion thrives in challenging sites such as hot sun and gravely soil. It is strikingly beautiful and is well-suited a formal or wild garden, as well as a natural meadow. Easy, dependable and very drought tolerant once established.
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Homeowner Growing and Maintenance Tips
Grow in full sun and any soil that isn't wet. Soil with good drainage such as a sandy loam is ideal.
A. cernuum forms slowly expanding clumps and can be divided easily at any time.
Deadhead flowers before seed sets to help control any unwanted spread. Foliage persists past flowering into late summer before dying back.
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USDA Hardiness Zone 4-8
Native Range
Found on ledges, in dry meadows, gravel, rocky or wooded slopes from New York to Michigan and British Columbia, south to Arizona and North Georgia.
Native Trivia
Though all parts are edible, Nodding Onion is not considered to be of significant culinary value. The juice of the plant is used as an insect repellent, specifically for moths. The juice can be applied to exposed skin in order to repel biting insects. Some claim that planting Nodding Onion repels moles.
"Bulbs are utilized by bears and ground squirrels. Elk and deer graze the early spring herbage."
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