Wild Chives
Allium schoenoprasum
Pollinator plant
(c) Pohled 111, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Growing it
| When | Flowers June to July |
|---|---|
| Type | wildflower |
| Sun | Full sun, partial shade |
| Water | Low, medium |
| Soil | pH 6–7.5 |
| Hardiness | zone 3–7 |
| Mature height | 0.3 m |
| Mature spread | 0.15 m |
| Spacing | 0.1 m |
| Years to maturity | 1 |
| Bloom | Jun–Jul |
| Flower colour | Pink read from a published flora |
| In bloom | June July |
| Native to | AB, SK |
narrow linear leaves about 25 cm long
Where it has been recorded
Which ecoregions the records fall in
- Northern Continental Divide south AB: 123 records, high confidence
- Aspen Parkland central AB / SK: 87 records, high confidence
- Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 80 records, high confidence
- Fescue Grassland south AB: 48 records, high confidence
- Peace Lowland north AB: 37 records, high confidence
- Moist Mixed Grassland south AB / SK: 10 records, medium confidence
- Western Alberta Upland central AB: 7 records, low confidence
- Boreal Transition central AB / SK: 5 records, low confidence
- Slave River Lowland north AB: 4 records, low confidence
- Tazin Lake Upland north AB / SK: 4 records, low confidence
These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.
See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.
Documented animals
81 documented relationships.
nectar for
- American Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- American Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Anania funebris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Ancistrocerus catskill Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Andrena hippotes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Andrena vicina Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Arctic Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Articulated Cuckoo Nomad Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Augochlorella aurata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Bicoloured Sweat Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Black Firefly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Black Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Black-shouldered Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Blue Orchard Mason Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Chlosyne harrisii Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Common Wood-Nymph Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Confusing Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Drone Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Eastern Calligrapher Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Eight-spotted Forester Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Epalpus signifer Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Eristalis flavipes Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Eristalis stipator Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Erynnis icelus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Erynnis juvenalis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Euodynerus foraminatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Eupeodes volucris Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Golden Northern Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Half-black Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Halictus confusus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Halictus ligatus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hemaris gracilis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hobomok Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hummingbird Clearwing Moth Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hunt's Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Hylaeus leptocephalus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Lacinipolia renigera Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Lilac Borer Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Mallota posticata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Megachile frigida Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Megachile latimanus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Megachile melanophaea Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Monarch Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Mourning Cloak Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Nevada Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Northern Amber Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Northern Paper Wasp Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Orange-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Orange-legged Furrow Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Painted Lady Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Pale Swallowtail Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Peck's Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Polygonia interrogationis Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Red Admiral Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Red-belted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Silver-spotted Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Silvery Blue Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Snowberry Clearwing Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Sphecomyia vittata Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Spring Cellophane Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Summer Azure Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tawny-edged Skipper Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Tricoloured Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Tritoxa flexa Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Viceroy Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Virginia Ctenucha Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Yellow Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
- Yellow-banded Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
pollen for
- Black-tailed Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
- Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
- Halictus confusus Guzman et al. 2022
- Heriades carinata Guzman et al. 2022
- Yellow-fronted Bumble Bee Guzman et al. 2022
Also worth knowing
Safety
Low toxicity to pets
Edible parts
Leaves, flowers
Buying it
About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (herb default); AB retail as of 2026
Where these numbers came from
- Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate