Macro Flowers | Drumstick Allium

Macro Flowers | Drumstick Allium   This Drumstick Allium, a type of ornamental onion with egg-shaped blooms, is in the process of blooming.  It blooms in early summer with oval shaped burgundy colored blooms on wiry stems.  The grayish-green foliage provides nice contrast for an image.  The word Allium means onion in Latin.  For the whole story with all images, see Macro Flowers | a 7 Image Story.