Allium geyeri |
Allium geyeri var. tenerum |
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Geyer's onion |
bulbil onion |
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Bulbs | 2–10+; ovoid or slightly elongate; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, reticulate; cells rather coarse-meshed; open, fibrous. |
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Leaves | persistent, usually green at anthesis, usually 3–5; blades solid; more or less straight; flat, channeled; (6)12– 30 cm × 1–3(5) mm. |
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Scapes | persistent; solitary; erect; terete or somewhat 2-angled, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm. |
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Umbels | persistent; erect; compact, 10–25-flowered, hemispheric to globose, not producing bulbils, or 0–5-flowered, largely replaced by ovoid, acuminate bulbils; pedicels becoming rigid and stiffly spreading in fruit, 8–13 mm; spathe bracts 2–3. |
0–5-flowered; flowers mostly replaced by bulbils; bulbils sessile or stalk less than 1 mm. |
Flowers | (4)6–8(10) mm; tepals erect or spreading; ovate to lanceolate; more or less equal, pink to white; margins often obscurely toothed; apex obtuse to acuminate; stamens included; ovary when present, inconspicuously crested with 3–6 low processes; stigma unlobed or obscurely lobed. |
tepals white to pink, flowering pedicels; if present, 8–13 mm. |
Seeds | rarely produced. |
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2n | =28, 35, 42. |
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Allium geyeri |
Allium geyeri var. tenerum |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | 2 varieties. |
Meadows and along streams. Flowering May–Jul. 300–2300 m. BR, BW. ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia and Alberta, east to WY, southeast to AZ. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 139 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 139 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
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