Halloween Penant and Meadow garlic

Description:

Native wild garlic, has purple flowers

Habitat:

Withlacoochee Forest

Notes:

The wild garlic/ onion is cultivated as a vegetable in home gardens in Cuba, scattered locally in the south to western parts of the island. It was formerly collected from the wild to be eaten by Native Americans and by European settlers. Various Native American tribes also used the plant for other purposes: for example, rubbing the plant on the body for protection from insect bites.Livestock have also been poisoned by ingesting wild onions