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Definition of Nodding wild onion
1. Noun. Widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodding Wild Onion
Literary usage of Nodding wild onion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"nodding wild onion. Fig. 1244. A. cernuum Roth; Roem. Arch, i: Part 3, 40. 1789.
rowly ovoid, with a long neck, i'-2i' high, the Bulbs usually clustered on ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1879)
"A. cernuum, NODDING' WILD ONION. Banks, through the Alleghany region and NW :
scape angular, l°-2° long, often nodding at the apex; pedicels of the loose ..."
3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"April 6, 1901, remains of this plant found in woods northeast of the lake.
April 19, well out in leaf. 196. nodding wild onion ALLIUM CERNUUM Roth This ..."
4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"nodding wild onion. ( Man. p. 263 ; IF/. 994.) On banks and hillsides, NY to
Minn, and BC, W. Va., Ky., S. Dak., end in the Rocky Mts. to N. Mex. ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"nodding wild onion. Bulbs narrowly ovoid, tapering above into a neck 1 — 2 inches
long, usually clustered on a short rootstock, with membranous coats; ..."
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