NC, Smokies, 20051125
CabinCove, onions and bedstraw. 

Messer drainage, and around house.

Galium triflorum 

 ST v weakly retrorse barbed (quite hard to find any although it feels more so), v strongly angled, prostrate, well-branched
 LF 6's, ellip-oblance, mucronate, up to 8-9mm wide at widest, 1-2 retrorse barbs under midvein, well antrorse cil
 FR 1-2mm, bristly

Allium tricoccum 

Across creek from house.

Allium vineale 

In lawn on S facing slope by cabin. 
 GEN many clustered in rel broad clumps, v strong onion odor
 ROOT memb coat, mostly sym but with small facet in one sl flattened side
 LF hollow, glauc (scratch test), 2-3, v slender (1-2mm wide)
Never seen to bloom.

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