If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
Excuse me...
What I mean to say is, if the bulbs at the base of the original "weird" plants looked just like California Reds, the plants are surely just odd variations of California Red. If you've been planting many of yours from topsets to begin with, it makes sense that sooner or later, some of their descendants might adopt the habit of producing "hairy" topsets which then produce little topsets of their own. If some specimens of Allium vineale can do it, why not Allium cepa?
About Allium vineale, the infamously invasive "crow garlic," I have more to say, but I think I'll do that in another thread. The long and short of it is, I want some.
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