Deadly Differences

This is a Death Camas. Do not eat it.

Wild onion or garlic. These you can eat. I apologize for not knowing which one it is. I did not sniff or taste it.

Onions grow wild here, so do chives, and so does garlic. I've had wild garlic on some escargot done on a campfire. It set them off nicely.

Death Camas and White Camas also grow here and they look eerily like the garlic and onions. It's easy to get confused and throw a few in the stew.

I would not take a chance on harvesting any of them myself. I let my botanist husband do it.
If he says they're edible, then we eat them.

The most efficient way to tell the difference is to rub a bit of the leaf and sniff it. White and Death Camas do not have the distinctive onion or garlic odor.

If you're not sure or you nose isn't working, then go ahead and assume it is a killer and discard it.

In a related matter, there's an unrelated plant called Blue Camas that grows here and is edible.