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Can anyone help me identify these plants that have a big White Bald Head and are about 4-5 foot tall.?
They have shown up in a house that we are working on getting restored and although they are nice and in the rest of the plant areas, I have NO idea what they are or how best to care for them.
Any help will be used to keep them! I think they are "Men in Black Plants" cause I haven't seen anything similar around DFW but then I haven't really looked until these showed up! Thanks
And here is a couple of Pics http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QAH6FBTODDQ4V5LA37UJELIKGA...
Ok, I added a couple of pics of the "flower" on these, it could be Allium but the pics I have of those don't match the head exactly and the stalks are all on these are all white as well the allium appears to have green stalks?.
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- 1 decade ago
They look to me to be a kind of allium, members of the onion family. They all have that round flower head on top of a tall stalk of various sizes.
I googled allium photos and found the link below. Looks like it's similar to your plant.
Source(s): http://tinyurl.com/24r99wp - 1 decade ago
According to your pictures these are probably Allium fistulosum L. (welsh onion / scallions)...or perhaps escaped yellow onions (Allium cepa). You can determine if your plants are Welsh onions by cutting one of the stalks to see if it is hollow (fistulosum=hollow); you can also dig one up to see if a large bulb is forming. Welsh onions do not produce large bulbs like Allium cepa. The Welsh onion / scallion is an escapee and a potential noxious weed in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_onion, http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ALFI4 - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- euphorbLv 51 decade ago
Way too little detail - please take a closeup of the flowerhead. I ruled out Queen Anne's Lace, which has essentially a white, flat flowerhead. Some milkweeds had a ball-like, white flowerhead; the stems would ooze a latex-like sap if cut.
