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CAN YOU TELL THESE APART?
It grows in your lawn and looks like wild onion. It has no onion smell, and it is toxic
SAFE
wild onion
Allium canadense
strong onion smell when crushed, round hollow grass-like leaves
TOXIC
star-of-Bethlehem
Ornithogalum umbellatum
no onion smell, solid grass-like leaves with a white midrib stripe, white star flowers
How to tell them apart
Crush a leaf. Onion smell = wild onion. No smell with a white midrib stripe = star-of-Bethlehem.
You can tell them apart right now. The real question is whether you'll still know in three weeks — BloomEDU quizzes you on this pair until the name sticks.
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