Wild onion
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Wild onion
young wild onion leaves in early spring
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantaeia Subkingdom Tracheobionta Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Subclass: Liliidae Order: Liliales Family: Liliaceae Genus: Allium Species: ursinum
Binomial name
Allium ursinum

Wild onion (Allium ursinum) is a wild relative of chives. The systematic name derives from the fact that brown bears like to eat the bulbs of the plant and dig up the ground to get at them, as do wild boar.

Wild onions grow mainly in swampy decidous woodlands. They flower before the trees get their leaves and fill the air with their characteristic strong smell.

The leaves are collected and eaten as salad, boiled or as a kind of pesto.

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