Could it be Allium tuberosum?

Joe

I looked that one up after you mentioned it, Joe. It could be ...but I'm guessing chives have an onion odor, at least my purple flowered chives did. I can't stand that odor.
These have no odor what -so- ever-.
Does allium tuberosum smell? If so this can't be allium tuberosum.

Karen

If it has no garlic-onion odour, then it's not likely garlic chives, A. tuberosum. It may be A. senescens... a very variable but late-blooming allium.

Might be Allium Multibulbosum Nigrum ??? Check out image.

Here is a link that might be useful: Allium Multibulbosum Nigrum

Allium multibulbosum (correctly called Allium nigrum) blooms in spring, and has broad leaves.

With over 700 species of the "strong-smelling" alliums with varying pungency from species to spices, it is difficult to say for sure. However, I don't believe that it is Allium Multibulbosum Nigrum. Look at the leaves. And it is not {{gwi:336922}} because they have pink flowers.

Garlic chives A. tuberosum have white flowers with "flat, solid, keeled leaves, sheathed at the base to form cylindrical bulbs."

Onion chives A. schoenoprasum generally have pink flowers on top of "cylindrical, hollow leaves."

I really don't know which Allium that you have, but you might want to do a Google search for Allium photos.

Allium senescens can also have white flowers... as is common with most species of plants (that is, flower colour variation within a short range of colours). I have one, and there's another shown at the attached site.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bulb Society link

Here are detailed descriptions of both A. senescens and A. tuberosum, if you have a botanical glossary and the patience to wade through them!

Allium senescens:
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027531

Here is a link that might be useful: Flora of China: Allium tuberosum

You guys are really turning up some good info. I've been scrolling the web for info and pics. I'm going to have to rule out -

allium senescens as I already have this is the pink flowered form with the curly leaves.It is not like the unknown white one as senescens has a mild odor, has shorter curled leavesthat are more gray in color, and is a smaller and shorter plant overall.

It can't be canadense var fraseri as mine is blooming now and canadanse is reported to bloom in May, and is supposed to have an odor.( great website with these pics BTW!)

It can't be garlic chives, as I have the pink form and found it a foul smelling flopper with tubular leaves- not at all like mine on these 3 points. I have also grown garlic- also in this family- and it is not garlic either.

It can't be another one I googled called neapolitanum 'cowanii' as the info on the web says it blooms in may.

I do love many allium- this one is one of the 11 types I have. I just wish I knew its name.

I really appreciate your help. I got this in trade as an 'allium with a green eye'

someone must know it somewhere...
Karen

http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y256/cheerpeople/sequence%20of%20blooms%20Sept%2008/?action=view&current=alliumcompare.jpg

Sorry it isn't letting me post the photo here- but here's the link.
Now that I picked it - there is an odor on my hand....

Here is a link that might be useful:

Maybe it's something in the Alliaceae family other than an Allium? I'm not totally loving it as a candidate, but take a look at Triteleia hyacinthina, 'White Brodiaea', 'Fool's Onion'.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:336926}}

...and to thow an Allium into the mix, here is Allium subvillosum.

Here is a link that might be useful: Allium subvillosum

Hi,
It looks like my garlic chives. My garlic chives don't really smell at all unless crushed, and when crushed, don't smell like regular chives.
Here's a photo of some of mine from last fall.(Mine are blooming, I just don't have a new pic.)
{{gwi:336929}}

Remy

You are right Remy!
It looks just like the picture you have labeled 'Chinese chive'
I will have to see if I can find a botanical name for that one.
Karen

Read back a little... garlic chives = Allium tuberosum...

Allium subvillosum is a spring bloomer, and said to be hardy to zone 9 (though such statements can't always be trusted)... anyways, unlikely, also as it is rather uncommon.

It looks like my garlic chives that are blooming now.

Karen,
As Abgardeneer wrote garlic chives are Allium tuberosum. Another common name is Chinese Chives. I sometimes say or write that because that is how they are often referred to in cooking.
Remy