Allium triquetrum |
Allium amplectens |
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three-corner leek |
slim-leaf onion |
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Bulbs | 5–20+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster; ovoid; outer coats enclosing renewal bulbs; more or less translucent, obscurely cellular-reticulate; thin, membranous; meshes delicate; cells vertically elongate, contorted; without fibers. |
1–15+; increase bulbs absent or more or less equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as a basal cluster; ovoid to more or less globose; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous; cells in more or less vertical rows, forming irregular herringbone pattern, transversely elongate; without fibers. |
Leaves | persistent, green at anthesis, 2–3; blades solid; flat, not falcate; more or less keeled, 15–50 cm × 3–15 mm; margins entire. |
persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2–4; blades solid, subterete or more or less channeled, 10–36 cm × 0.5–2 mm. |
Scapes | persistent, clustered; erect; solid, sharply 3-angled, 10–40 cm × 1–10 mm. |
persistent; solitary; erect; solid; terete, 15–50 cm × 3–5 mm. |
Umbels | persistent; lax; loose, 3–15-flowered; more or less 1-sided; pedicels 15–25 mm; spathe bracts 1–2. |
shattering after seeds mature; each flower deciduous with its pedicel as a unit; erect; compact, 10–50-flowered, hemispheric; pedicels 4–16 mm; spathe bracts 2–3. |
Flowers | becoming pendent, 10–18 mm; tepals erect to spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white with prominent green midrib; margins entire; apex acute; stamens included; ovary crestless; stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed. |
5–9 mm; tepals spreading, lanceolate; more or less equal, white to pink; margins entire; apex acute; stamens included; ovary crested with 6 prominent processes; stigma scarcely thickened, unlobed. |
2n | =18. |
=14, 21, 28. |
Allium triquetrum |
Allium amplectens |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Road ditches, lawns, and other disturbed moist sites. Flowering Apr–Jul. 400–2800 m. BR, BW, Col, ECas, Lava, Owy. CA; Europe. Exotic. Allium triquetrum is cultivated for its attractive flowers. It readily escapes in south coastal Oregon and California and has potential to become invasive. |
Moist seeps, clay soils including dry meadows, savanna, and serpentine barrens. Flowering May–Jul. 0–2500 m. BR, Casc, CR, ECas, Est, Sisk, WV. WA, CA; north to British Columbia. Native. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 144 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 136 Nick Otting, Richard Brainerd, Barbara Wilson |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Allium serratum | |
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