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Allium flavum, the small yellow onion [4] or yellow-flowered garlic, [5] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium. A bulbous herbaceous perennial , it is native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean , Black , and Caspian Seas , from areas like France and Morocco to Iran and Kazakhstan .
Allium baytopiorum Kollmann & Özhatay – Baytop's onion; Allium beesianum W.W.Sm. Allium bekeczalicum Lazkov; Allium bellulum Prokh. Allium beypazariense Koçyiğit, Özhatay & E.Kaya; Allium bidentatum Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal. Allium bigelovii [6] (also A. bigelowii [7]) S.Watson; Allium bilgeae Yıld. Allium bilgilii H.Duman & Eksi ...
Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) are a diverse order of flowering plants in the monocots.Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification, Asparagales are the largest order of monocots with 14 families, [5] 1,122 genera, and about 36,000 species, with members as varied as asparagus, orchids, yuccas, irises, onions, garlic, leeks, and other Alliums, daffodils, snowdrops, amaryllis ...
The genus Allium are herbaceous geophytes is characterised by bulbs enclosed in membranous tunics, that may become fibrous and may be carried on rhizomes, with tepals that are free or almost free, and a subgynobasic style. The majority of species produce cysteine sulphoxides that are the source of their distinctive garlic and onion odor and taste.
Calice à six parties egales (umbellate flowers, bulbous, calyx of six equal parts). [15] Subsequently, de Candolle reverted the family name back to Liliaceae from Asphodeli. [16] He divided the Liliaceae into a series of Ordres, and the second ordre was named Asphodèles, based on Jussieus' family of that name, [17] in which he placed Allium. [18]
The inflorescence is an umbel of six to 20 white flowers, lacking the bulbils produced by some other Allium species such as Allium vineale (crow garlic) and Allium oleraceum (field garlic). [9] [8] [10] The flowers are star-like with six white tepals, about 16–20 mm (0.63–0.79 in) in diameter, with stamens shorter than the perianth. [8]
Allium monanthum is unusual in the genus in being usually dioecious (male and female flowers on separate plants), but rarely hermaphrodite or gynomonoecious. [8] The species produces a single round bulb about 1 cm (1 ⁄ 3 in) in diameter. Scapes are relatively short for the genus, rarely more than 10 cm (4 in) tall. Leaves are flat, long and ...
Allium caeruleum (blue globe onion, blue ornamental onion, blue-of-the-heavens, blue-flowered garlic; syn. Allium azureum Ledeb.) is an ornamental bulbous plant of the onion genus, native to Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang). [3] [4] [5] In these regions, it is found on dry slopes, plains, and ...