Wild onion
Wild onion (Allium ursinum) is a wild relative of chives. The systematic name derives from the fact that brown bears like to eat the bulbs of the plant and dig up the ground to get at them, as do wild boar.
Wild onions grow mainly in swampy decidous woodlands. They flower before the trees get their leaves and fill the air with their characteristic strong smell.
The leaves are collected and eaten as salad, boiled or as a kind of pesto.
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