Allium acuminatum |
Allium constrictum |
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Hooker's onion, taper-tip onion |
Grand Coulee onion |
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Bulbs | 1–12+, not basally clustered, not forming rhizomes, ovoid to ± globose, 0.8–1.6 × 0.9–1.6 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more renewal bulbs, ± yellow-brown, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous, cells square or polygonal, walls thick, obscurely sinuous, without fibers; inner coats white, cells obscure, ± quadrate. |
1–5+, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–1.5 × 0.8–1.4 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers; inner coats white, cells obscure, quadrate. |
Leaves | persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2–3, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, subterete or ± channeled, 7–30 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire. |
usually persistent, green at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat, broadly channeled, falcate, 10–35 cm × 1–3(–5) mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 10–35 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, enlarged apically but distinctly constricted just proximal to inflorescence, 15–20 cm × 1.5–4 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, loose, 10–40-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–7-veined, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
persistent, erect, compact, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric to globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 3, 5–7-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acute. |
Flowers | campanulate, 8–15 mm; tepals erect, pink to rose-purple, or white, lanceolate to lance-ovate, unequal, becoming rigid and keeled in fruit, margins finely denticulate (inner tepal more prominently so), apex acuminate, outer tepal longer and wider than inner, spreading to recurved at tip, inner tepal with strongly recurved tips; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 3, central, 2-lobed, rounded, minute, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 6–25 mm. |
± stellate, 7–8 mm; tepals spreading, light pink to rose with prominent green or reddish midribs, narrowly lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire, apex acuminate; stamens exserted; anthers blue-gray; pollen light blue to gray; ovary crested; processes 6, 2 per lobe, low, rounded, margins entire; style exserted, linear; stigma capitate, unlobed; pedicel 10–20 mm. |
Seed | coat dull or shining; cells minutely roughened. |
coat shining; cells smooth. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Allium acuminatum |
Allium constrictum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering May–Jul. |
Habitat | Dry slopes and plains | Shallow, lithosolic soils, often dry and sandy |
Elevation | 100–1500 m (300–4900 ft) | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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WA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Allium constrictum is known only from Douglas, Grant, and Lincoln counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 261. | FNA vol. 26. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
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Synonyms | A. acuminatum var. cuspidatum, A. cuspidatum | A. douglasii var. constrictum |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 184, plate 196. (1838) | (Ownbey & Mingrone) P. M. Peterson: Syst. Bot. 13: 211. (1988) |
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