mundane pointless question i must ask

Is onion grass the same as chives? 'Cause I like to chew on onion grass that I find in my backyard, and it sure LOOKS a lot like the chives my mom has growing in her herb garden. But she won’t let me haul the chives up to see if there’s a little oniony thing on the bottom of them, and I never see the purple chivey flowers on the onion grass…

Yawn umm huh you were saying?

aha thats just rude!!! Besides as an aging rock star this is your specialty! I think he/she is talking about drugs!

lol

actually, if you wanna say anything about drugs, i’ll listen to that too

at the time, onion grass seeemed like a VERY pressing subject to me… i need to stop popping caffeine pills NOW

Now, now, aha, it is the name of the forum. But racinchikki, you may want to edit that sig down a little bit.

Anyway – they’re not the same thing, though wild chives are sometimes called onion grass. Here are pictures of

Chives
http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p_chives.htm

Onion grass

http://www.rootgrafix.com/herbalnexus/p_oniong.htm

I don’t think you can smoke either one, though :wink:

Onion grass is Allium vineale, Chives are Allium schoenoprasum. Both are members of the lily family. So close, but not the same thing.

Don’tcha just hate it when you roll down a hill in the park and there’s a big patch of onion grass that you didn’t notice before you started rolling and then you roll right through it and then stink the rest of the day?
Do you mean no, you don’t usually roll down hills or no you don’t hate the smell?

thank you

sorry i didn’t realize how long that sig was

i used to use it on my emails and somehow it seemed less huge then

I don’t really know onion grass, but I’ve had that experience with deandelions, which stain skin and clothes.

Dandelions? I’ve had that experience with slugs! Yuck-ee!

racinchikki just a lil’ post to let you know I was only teasing about the yawn. Your post was no more mundane than most of mine are.

Welcome to the SDMB btw. :slight_smile:

Dandelions? Slugs? How about fresh dog turds??

we don’t have any hills here… well, we have hills but if you try to roll down them you end up hitting at least fifteen trees, and that’s if you aim to miss them…

I though that stuff was wild garlic.