Hi Kathleen, I don’t know where your coastal prairie is, but it sounds like Allium vineale. On Mare Island, Vallejo at the north end of San Francisco Bay, this Allium grows in degraded scrub adjacent to land that had been grazed by cattle for decades. Arcangelo Wessells Vallejo Surveying a coastal prairie that spent decades as a dairy and then cattle ranch, I found this allium last summer. 18-24 inches tall, no flowers, just a head of bulbils, about 1.5-2 inches across. Is there a way to identify this plant to species? It is now owned by a conservation group, which plans to remove it over the next few years. Kathleen _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…