Allium Tuberosum (Garlic Chives) 韮（ニラ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Things change and so do Allium tuberosum or garlic chives. The beautiful white flowers of garlic chives in early September (2nd photo) have died but they're now ready to disperse seeds, which look like black sesame seeds! 

Allium tuberosum 韮

Allium Tuberosum (Garlic Chives) 韮（ニラ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are flowers of Allium tuberosum or more commonly garlic chives. Bugs seem to like them. I found a tiny black leaf beetle and a common straight swift butterfly on them (2nd photo).

This is my first time seeing garlic chives growing on roadsides. I love the chives for their smell, eating them on a daily basis by boiling and seasoning them with soy sauce or putting them into miso or Chinese soup, but didn't have the guts to try roadside chives.

Allium tuberosum flowers with a leaf beetle 韮の花とハムシ

Garlic chives flowers with common straight swift ニラの花とイチモンジセセリ