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[2] [3] [4] Allium plummerae produces elongate bulbs up to 5 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 cm in diameter. Flowers are up to 10 mm across; tepals white or pink; anthers purple; pollen yellow. [2] [5] [6] The epithet "plummerae" is in honor of one member of the expedition that collected those specimens, botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon. [5]
According to the Garden Guy, the Serendipity ornamental onion is ideal for Zones 4-8, and its fragrant purple flowers are pollinator magnets. According to the Garden Guy, the Serendipity ...
Allium obtusum is a species of wild onion known by the common name red Sierra onion or subalpine onion.It is native to eastern California and western Nevada.It is a common plant in the granite foothills and mountains of the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range, from Tulare County to Siskiyou County, from elevations of 800 to 3,500 metres (2,600 to 11,500 ft).
Allium victorialis, commonly known as victory onion, Alpine leek, and Alpine broad-leaf allium [5] is a broad-leaved Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a perennial of the Amaryllis family that occurs widely in mountainous regions of Europe and parts of Asia (Caucasus and Himalayas). [4] [6]
[2] [1] [3] [4] [5] Allium polyrhizum produces clumps of many narrowly cylindrical bulbs, each generally less than 10 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 30 cm long, round in cross-section. Leaves are tubular, less than 1 cm across, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric with many densely packed flowers.
The umbels are some 8–12 cm (3.1–4.7 in) in diameter, relatively small compared to the tall stems, hence the description 'drumstick allium'. Individual flowers, of which there are many, are a typical allium shape, with a superior ovary and six tepals of a lilac to purple colour, around 2.5 to 5 cm long; white forms are known.
[2] [5] [6] [7] Two varieties are recognized: [2] [8] Allium perdulce var. perdulce; Allium perdulce var. sperryi Ownbey [9] [10] [11] Var. sperryi is a color variant known only from western Texas in the trans-Pecos region. It has white to pale pink flowers instead of the more widespread deep rose to purple. [2]
Allium subhirsutum var. vernale (Tineo) Bonnet & Barratte Allium vernale Tineo Allium subvillosum , the spring garlic , is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia , the Balearic Islands , Sicily , northern Africa ( Libya , Tunisia , Algeria , Morocco , and the Canary Islands ) and the Azores [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ...