Don't think so. Where are you located? Maybe Allium canadense?

We call them wild garlic chives around here, a native perennial. They have flat leaves as these appear to be rather than the round hollow leaves of garlic chives. Edible with a mild garlic flavor.

Walking onions produce a nest of small bulbs at the top (rather than the single flower you see in your photo, and you harvest and use those small bulbs like onions.

Dave

Walking Onions pic

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I am located in Central Texas. Went out took another look and the leaves are flat except the stems with that seed pod on top which is round and solid, not hollow like onion greenery. see

Please be careful harvesting wild plants. I am not discouraging the practice, I'm very much in favor, but there are many noxious 'look-a-likes' that resemble edible plants.

In the case of wild garlic, wild onion, and ramps, there is a somewhat dangerous look-a-like. Please learn the characteristics of the edibles, and the ones to avoid. Doing so will help you to identify and enjoy some very good, yet often over-looked plants.

Good point RG - about all we can guarantee is that they are NOT walking onions. So while they look exactly like the wild garlic chives I have growing all over - bloom head and all - there is no way I can guarantee that from pics. If you cut/crush the leaves they should smell like garlic. Beyond that the choice is yours to make.

Dave

Enough said. I'll kill them again, yes again. I have lived here years and I have killed them because when mowing them down they make my eyes itch and run. But they gradually come back in a couple years. I suppose seeds wash down and starts them again. Thanks for answers

"Btw they are clearly Alliums and I know of no members of that tribe which will do you any harm."

I agree, they do not appear to be the look-a-like, but many people read these forums. I think it good practice to include the reminder for those who might not have a depth of experience, that there are specific characteristics of each plant - both edible and toxic varieties - and knowing the characteristics of each can only benefit the forager.

And, just like some garden plants - tomatoes for example - some parts of a wild plant are perfectly fine, others... not so much.

I too see no reason to kill the plants.

I'm interested to know what plant is the look alike? I've been racking my brains.

Star of Bethlehem for one. It has a similar growing season, and growth habit. The inexperienced needs to remember that foraging is not straightforward.

There is also at least one lily that resembles edible Alliums, the Death Camas. To someone with experience, there are characteristic differences. To the person who has to ask, or is curious to learn, knowing the differences is vital. Not every plant is flowering when the person is seeking to harvest. You can only go by the flowers when the flowers are present. Knowing the plant's growing season is also important. And not every individual plant is a perfect specimen. As Dave said above, when all other indications might fail the novice, in the case of the wild, edible Alliums, smell is a defining characteristic.

Yes - neither of those other plants smells of onions.

Looking for the onion smell is the first thing people should be told to do. If there is nothing present in a region that both looks and smells like an onion - yet is unsuitable for consumption - then the odor immediately becomes the best way to tell.

Several years back, I was sent a wild Allium in trade (from Texas) that closely resembles the photos above. Mine are nearly identical to those shown in an older thread on the Allium Forum: wild onions

I believe the traded "onions" to be A. canadense. Mine appear to be daylength sensitive. The photos posted by the trader showed vigorous clumps about 2' tall (I've searched in vain for that old thread) but grown in this latitude they are very short - foliage only 6-8" tall, and that growing as much outward as upward. I have kept them as a novelty, the flowers - protruding on long stems from the ball of dark red bulbils - are reminiscent of fireworks.