Trimming your heating bill can be easy. You know garlic and chives. Fruit, veggie and forage conferences, and tips. By George Boyhan Georgia Extension Service Everyone knows about the Vidalia onions grown in southeast Georgia. They're among the best-known of a fascinating family of plants.
All onions belong to a plant group called alliums.
These plants all have long, slender leaves with parallel leaf veins. Many also produce prominent bulbs. Even wild onion and garlic species grow throughout the United States. Vidalia onions are large, slightly flattened, yellow onions with a very mild flavor. People often refer to this mild flavor as sweet.