Even so, chives are not grown to any great extent. The leaves are used in fresh salads and for flavoring of other foods.
Chives are perennial plants, much smaller than onions, and they grow in compact clumps or clusters.
The leaves are about one-fourth the size of onion leaves. The anthers release their pollen slightly before the stigma becomes receptive, and the flowers close at night so that self-pollination is possible if insect pollination fails. Kropacova et al. They indicated an insufficiency of bees on the older plants.