Dear All, Some time ago Jane McGary loaded a very pretty picture of a yellow Allium on the wiki. Since Allium is a very large genus and Mark McDonough has created quite a number of Allium pages to make it more manageable, I am sure a lot of us are not exactly sure which Allium page to put pictures on. So this picture had not made it to a wiki page, but I thought a lot of you would enjoy seeing it. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… It reminds me of Triteleia ixioides. Mark says that it is Allium scorzonerifolium ssp. xericiense, which is superior to the species as it is more floriferous. The species has bulbils in the inflorescence and only a few bright yellow flowers; "xericiense" is the showy non-bulbilliferous form. On the other hand the species is hardier and slow to increase so it makes a nice plant except it is small so needs to be protected from plant competition. Mark has lost this subspecies in his New England Zone 5 three or four times and has concluded he may have to overwinter it indoors to keep it going. I have added Jane's picture to the Miscellaneous Onion page for now. Maybe Jane can tell us how she grows it. Mary Sue PBS List Administrator, Wiki Worker, TOW Coordinator (Whew!)
