Where I hike in California, miner's lettuce is plentiful, and it's incredibly easy to identify, so I like to use it for trail nibbles or salads with meals. I would like to add some variety to my salads by adding wild onions to the mix. I believe they're pretty common, especially in wet meadows. Has anyone here successfully gathered wild onions in California? I've studied up on the botany, but what worries me a little is the possibility of confusing it with death camas; the difference would be obvious when the flowers were in bloom, but I think the flowers might not be in bloom as late as summer, and that might make it harder to tell them apart. The onion smell is supposed to be pretty definitive, I guess. Onions have large papery bracts under the umbels — but do these persist after the flowers are no longer in bloom?
