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Chives are a wonderful addition to my herb garden! I planted them in a pot, and then planted the pot in the ground (it has draining holes). This will make the winterizing easier. I like to use my chives like I do green onions, especially in salads.
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Chives are perennials easily distinguished by their growth in dense clumps, lack of well-formed bulbs, and ornamental quality violet flowers. The tubular leaves are 6 to 10 inches long. No other onion has such a wide geographical distribution as the chive and few species are more variable.
This list includes all documented vascular plants in Colorado at Herbarium COLO. Nomenclature follows Weber & Wittmann (1992), Catalog of the Colorado Flora: A Biodiversity Baseline, including most recent addenda.
Chives Allium schoenoprasum Chives have been in American kitchen gardens since the colonial era, perhaps owing to their robust nature and tasty leaves, which are most commonly used to season soups, cream cheese, etc.