> xaóenėhéstȧhévo, "same as a skunk" (Glenmore and Leman 1984: 149; Fisher at al.)
Drummond’s onion is perennial plant, 10 to 20 cm tall. Bulbs are mostly separately; they are ovate, 15 to 25 mm long, covered with a tunic. Leaves are 1 to 2 mm wide, linear. Inflorescence is an umbel composed from white or pink blooms, 6 mm wide. It blossoms from April to June. It grows on moister soils. It ranges from Alaska to Newfoundland, Maine, New York, Michigan, Wyoming, and Washington.
> xaóenėhéstȧhévo, "same as a skunk" (Glenmore and Leman 1984: 149; Fisher at al.)
Wild chives are perennial plants, 20 to 60 cm tall. They smell distinctively after garlic. Inflorescence is globate, composed of pink to purple red flowers. They blossom in July and August. They are closely related to cultivated chives. They grow in mountains areas; abundant on moist meadows. They range throughout the northern temperate belt. In North America from Alaska to Newfoundland, New York, Michigan, Minnesota, Colorado, and Washington. In the Czech Republic in Krkonoše (the Giant Mountains) and Hrubý Jeseník (High Ash Mountains).
Cheyennes eat these onions and garlics rarely today. Formerly, they were often boiled along with meat, especially when Cheyennes lacked salt and wanted to flavour their meal. At gathering these onion, it is necessery to mind mistake for poisonous meadow deathcamas. Meadow deathcamas affects in the same habitats as the onions does (Tallbull 1993: 4; Moerman 1998: 613).
Meadow deathcamas (Zigadenus venenosus) is a plant of the lily family, 15 to 60 cm tall, which grows from a little bulb. Root is poisonous. Leaves are 4 to 6 mm wide, linear, shorted than a stem. Inflorescence is simple or little branched cluster, 5 to 10 cm long, with yellow or yellowish flowers. It blossoms in May and June. It ranges from Nebraska to Saskatchewan, Idaho, and Utah.
