Nodding Onion (
Allium cernuum
)
—The nodding onion may be identified by its onion odour, grass-like leaves and small pink flowers that are clustered in an umbrella-like head. It is a popular food that is harvested from May to July, but is better if it is picked before flowering. Nodding onion can be eaten raw and bundled then steam-cooked in underground pits. After it is cooked in the pits with other foods, it becomes sweet in taste.
Spring Beauty (
Claytonia lanceolata
)
—Spring beauty has small potato-like corms. This small, delicate, herb has white flowers that appear after the snow melts. These potatoes are dug during May and June. They can be eaten raw.