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From Garden to Table: Harvesting Herbs for Healthy Eating.
Additional Comments: For culinary use, snip only the tips; plant is attributed to lowering blood pressure and combatting anemia; self sowing habit can make it invasive; air dry to preserve chives for cooking.
Do you want to "spice" up your meals? Sometimes I'll add flowers to a dull looking salad to add color. Or, sometimes I just eat flowers right out in the garden. But one very important thing that you need to remember is that not every flower is edible.
Covalent anthocyanin-flavonol complexes from flowers of chive, Allium schoenoprasum, Torgils Fossen, Rune Slimestad, Dag Olav Øvstedal and Øyvind M. Andersen, Phytochemistry, 2000, 54 (3), 317-323
The Chives Common, 'Allium schoenoprasum', has beautiful edible flowers and delicate onion flavored foliage. The Common Chives are at home anywhere. Not many plants do as many things as this plant does and are as easy to grow, maintain, and they come back every year.
USDA: Find Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum in USDA Plants ITIS: Find Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System FNA: Find Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum in the Flora of North America (if available) Google: Search Google for Allium schoenoprasum var.
ALVAR VEGETATION OF O¨ LAND* CHANGES, MONITORING AND RESTORATION Ejvind Rose´n ABSTRACT Alvars are habitats characterised by thin soils on limestone bedrock.
The chive plant, Allium schoenoprasum, is the smallest member of the onion family. Pretty lavender flowers make this an appealing garden perennial for attractive borders or individual plantings.
C. September 1987 ii This publication is RR87002-HQ Copies of this report may be obtained, depending upon supply from: Research Branch B.C. Ministry of Forests and Lands 1450 Government Street Victoria, B.C. Citation: Meidinger, D. 1987.