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Definition of Allium cernuum
1. Noun. Widely distributed North American wild onion with white to rose flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allium Cernuum
Literary usage of Allium cernuum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Perhaps the most common eastern species are Allium cernuum, Allium canadense and
Allium tricoccum, the last generally known as the wild leek, a broad-leaved ..."
2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"ALLIUM Allium cernuum. Allium, the ancient Latin name of the garlic. ...
Allium cernuum appear in a simple umbel, wrapp. d in the bud by a scarious spathe. ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"... reduction divisions of Allium tricoccum was examined with the idea of comparing
it with the results of a previous investigation of Allium cernuum (24). ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"Allium cernuum Roth; Roem. Arch. Bot. i: Part 3, 40 (1798). 1130. Allium mutabile
Michx. FI. Bor. Am. i : 195 (1803). 1131. Allium Nuttallii S. \Vats. Proc. ..."
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