What is this wild plant I found? It looks like an onion?

Question

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I found a whole patch of these. They look like an onion or garlic. Smells like an onion. Has a white bulb with a weird looking thing protruding from the bottom of the bulb. No leaves, just a stalk with a flowering head at the top. Stem is reddish.

Answer 1

your wild plant you found is wild onion.

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=ht...

Answer 2

Was it just a bare stem with no leaves?

The wild onion bulb has a netted covering and its leaves, from the base of the plant at ground level up, are flat not hollow. There are several species of allium in the wild A. canadense for example.

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result....

(The one I see growing in the wild is is A. validum)

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symb...

A common name is the nodding onion.

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symb...

http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prai...

Wild garlic leaves are hollow and come out a bit up above the ground on the stem. A. vineale

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symb...

Wood leek or ramp has a broader leaf. A. tricoccum

http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Planta...

Answer 3

ramps.  Allium tricoccum  Wild Leeks or Ramps

Answer 4

it is most likely wild onion, there are lots of them.

'garden' has a great link on the first line i believe that is what you have there

Answer 5

sounds like garlic if the bulb is large it garlic but if it's small it a wild onion

Answer 6

could be a leek...really sad looking one...but quite possible.