Allium Species, Three-cornered Garlic, Three-cornered Leek, Stinking Onions, Onion Weed

This has been growing for at least 10 years in my zone 6 dry oak woods where it never seems to set seeds and increases quite slowly by of...Read Morefsets. Originally planted in an effort to protect Erythronium pagoda from deer predation, it failed at that but is a welcome sight after the spring bloomers that aren't eaten by deer have finished.

This plant is hardy in my zone 7b so I am not sure how zone 10 came to be listed. At any rate, this is a beautiful little shade plant. It...Read More is a nice accent. The voles leave it alone, and it tolerates moist clay at the edge of my woods quite well. It has never been invasive for me; if anything I find I have to replace the plants every few years probably because of the clay. They are said to naturalize in good soil.

A nasty weed in my garden. It is difficult to remove it all via hand pulling, and the tiniest bits left behind resprout. They can't be ...Read Moreadded to the compost pile, because composting won't kill them. (Learned that the hard way.) Weeding them out is an icky chore because they stink like the dickens. I will never be able to completely eradicate this plant, so have had to try to accept it and enjoy it when in bloom.

This plant is said to be Circa 1789, shade loving naturalizer with pendant creamy white bell shaped flowers with green veins.