| Scientific Name: | Allium cernuum |
| Common Name: | nodding onion |
| Family Name: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Origin: | Mexico, North America |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Perennial border, Rock garden, Urban agriculture, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Pink, May-Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bulb unsheathed, slender, conical and gradually tapering directly into several keeled grass-like leaves (2-4mm wide); florets bell-shaped, white or pink, about 5mm wide, in a downward nodding umbel; fruit capsules rounded and split open to reveal the dark shiny seeds. | |