Liliaceae Allium cernuum Roth

Nodding Onion

Navajo, Ramah - Food, Dried Food

Use documented by:
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 20

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Scientific name: Allium cernuum Roth
USDA symbol: ALCEC2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Nodding Onion
Family: Liliaceae
Family (APG): Nartheciaceae
Native American Tribe: Navajo, Ramah
Use category: Food
Use sub-category: Dried Food
Notes: Bulbs, never the tops, dried for the winter.

RECRD: 10407 id: 2147

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