Allium Stellatum with honey bee

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A honey bee feeding off Allium stellatum (Autumn onion, Prairie onion is a perennial wild onion native to North America, where it grows in rocky, sandy soil It grows from a bulb to about 1-2 feet (30-60 cm) with tufts of leaves which die back as the scape of pink to purple flowers forms. The bulbs are strongly flavored but can be eaten. The species name stellatum is botanical Latin for "starry", and refers to the umbels. This species was described for science by John Bellenden Ker in the early 19th century

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Size: 2600px × 3478px
Location: A village in Oxfordshire UK
Photo credit: © Paul Lee / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., allioideae, allium, amaryllidaceae, angiosperms, animalia arthropoda, apidae, apinae, apis, asparagales, autumn, bee, clade, close, family, family:, genus:, green, greenery, hive, honey, horticulture, hymenoptera, insect, insecta, kingdom:, leaf, lee, monocots, nectar, onion, order:, paul, plant, plantae, pollen, prairie, species:, stalk, stellatum, subfamily:, wing