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Tumbleweed Onion Identification: Allium schubertii's Dramatic Seedheads

The unusual dried specimen is tumbleweed onion (Allium schubertii). Its distinctive exploding-firework seedheads make spectacular dried arrangements. A fascinating ornamental onion worth growing for its architectural dried form alone.

About Gardening: Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum): Adaptable Native with Drooping Pink-Purple Flowers; Ornamental Onion 'Schubertii' (Allium schubertii): Explosive, 18-Inch Fireworks of Pink Flowers; Ornamental Onion (Allium senescens): Twisty Foliage and Pink Summer Blooms; Ornamental Onion 'Hair' (Allium vineale 'Hair'): Whimsical Green Tendrils; Allium schubertii (Tumbleweed Onion); Drummond's Onion (Allium drummondii); Giant Allium (Allium giganteum): Towering Purple Globes; Turkestan Onion (Allium karataviense): Broad Leaves and Pink Globes; Growing Allium (Flowering Onion): Dramatic Globes for Garden and Bouquets; "Pregnant Onion": Two Plants, One Confusing Name

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