Plant · P-364

Prairie Onion

Allium stellatum

Prairie onion, also called autumn onion, blooms from late summer into autumn, well after most other flowering plants nearby have finished - a valuable late-season nectar source for butterflies. Its bulb, leaves and flowers are all edible raw or cooked, though the bulbs stay small, so the leaves and flowers are the real harvest and the bulb is a bonus. It grows naturally on rocky, limestone-derived prairie ground and tolerates dry, alkaline soil without any coaxing.