[Magdalen] Wild Onions.

[Charles Wohlers]

In Abenaki it's "Winooski", hence the river & town of that name. And so, the 
sporting goods store in Montpelier is Onion River Sports.

Apparently Abenaki (an Algonquian language) and Miami aren't closely 
related.

They're typically called wild leeks up here, and are fairly commonly eaten. 
One might expect them to grow in some of wetter areas of our property, but 
I've never seen them. I seem to recall being told that there's some 
look-alike plant that needs to be avoided, but I forget what it is. Might be 
skunk cabbage, which comes up about the same time.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Knitter
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 9:53 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Wild Onions.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
<magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> Anyone with experience with these wild onions?

Only that I live in a city by that name:
Miami-Illinois: shikaakwa ("wild onion" or "wild garlic") > French:
Chicagou > English: Chicago

Scott in Wild Onion

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA