• Found in West Michigan zone 5b.
• It tolerates cool and heat well. It emerges about the same time as chives but it does not have a single hollow stem like chives. It has an occasional leave that comes off the stem like grass.
• Stem does not appear to be hollow.
• Flowers look a lot like chive as they appear at the end of a stalk in a bunch when it's still cool, when temps in the mid-60s F.
• Now the flowers are gone there are seed-like structures on top each with a long skinny chive-like green "stem". "Seeds" are brownish red.
• When breaking a stem it does not smell like onions or garlic.
• It grows among other grasses near a fence in full sun.
• It comes back every year on its own even surviving harsh Michigan winters.
• Could it be some type of reed?
• I'm familiar with equisetum (aka rushes, horse tails), chives, onions, leeks, garlic and it's none of those. I even have top onions and it's not that either.

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• I thought it might be a corkscrew rush but it's not cork screwy (unless that happens later in summer). Besides it thrives in dry sandy soil.