Chives flower is when the leek is old will be at the top of the open white flowers and daisy-like.

Chives: belongs to the lily family perennial herb, with a special strong smell, rhizome horizontal, bulb narrowly conical, clustered; scaly tunic yellow-brown, reticulate fibrous; leaf basal, bar-shaped, flat; umbels, terminal.

Leeks, perennial persistent herb, 20-45cm tall.

Roots: the fibrous root system of the chordate root, without primary and lateral roots. Mainly distributed in the 30cm tillage layer, the number of roots, there are about 40, divided into absorption roots, half storage roots and storage roots of three kinds. Born in the base of the shortened stem, the shortened stem is a disk-like metamorphosis of the stem, the lower part of the root, the upper part of the leaf.

Stem: stem is divided into nutrient stem and flowering stem, one or two-year-old nutrient stem shortened metamorphosis into disk, Chen called bulb disk, due to tillering and root hopping, shortened stems gradually to the surface of the prolonged growth, the average elongation of 1.0-2.0cm per year, the formation of gourd-like rhizomes below the bulb disk. The rhizome is an important organ for storing nutrients.

Leaves: Leaf blades are clustered on shortened stems, and the leaf blades are flattened and banded, and can be divided into broad and narrow leaves. The surface of the leaf blade has wax powder and the stomata are caught in the cuticle.

Flowers: cone-shaped involucre-enveloped umbels containing 20-30 florets. The florets are bisexual with white corolla , 6 tepals and 6 stamens. Ovary superior, heterogamous pollination.

Fruit Seed: ? The fruit is a capsule with a 3-loculed ovary and two ovules in each locule. Mature seeds are black, peltate, with a thousand-seed weight of 4-6 g.

Chive flowers, referred to as leek flowers, are also called leek moss.

About leek eating method I know there are such a few. One is the spring leek, that is, Du Fu "gift Wei Bushi" poem said "night rain cut spring leeks, new cooking between the yellow sorghum" in the "spring leek". Leeks for the spring first crop of the most delicious, and until the summer a variety of vegetables on the market, leeks naturally become the next thing, so the countryside has a "June smelly leeks," said. The second for leeks, winter cultivation of leeks, light yellow color, tender and tasty. Song people love to eat this kind of food, Huang Tingjian poem has "leeks in the spring plate, Mushroom white charming autumn vegetables" sentence, Wang Qianqiu "point Jiangliao - spring" words also said: "leeks are still short, the jade finger he cold cut." The cold winter cut leek pain in the poet's pen into a beautiful picture. Chives in today's winter is still a common dish, only the northern people are not more detailed, often confused with garlic. The third is leek white, also known as leek moss, that is, the stem of leeks, when young can be fried to eat. The fourth is leek flowers.