Wild Onion

This is actually one of four different wild onions this particular one is nodding wild onion (Allium cernuum).  Wild onions have grass like basal leaves nodding onions have a bend at the tip.  They're edible and have a very small onion bulbs.  Like all edible wild plants wild onions are disappearing fast from our few wild public forests I think its best to leave them for the wild animals that depend on them and so we have some left to help are brothers and sisters of the future identify.  Unfortunately there is just way more people in this world than wild places and plants left.  So its illegal to harvest wild plants from public forests in Iowa and around the United States.  Mushrooms, fruits, and nuts can be collected and eaten because the plant will still be there to reproduce next year.  Plants with tubers or bulbs can be extremely old sometimes over a hundred years and can take up to 15 years to reproduce.