Allium acuminatum |
Allium tuberosum |
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Hooker's onion, taper-tip onion |
Chinese chive, garlic chives, oriental garlic |
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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. |
1–3, borne on stout, ± horizontal rhizome, elongate, cylindric or conic, 0.5–1.5 × 0.7–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, reticulate, cells ± fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats white, cells closely parallel, elongate. |
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. |
withering from tip by anthesis, 2–5, sheathing scape to ± soil level; blade solid, flat, carinate abaxially, 20–40 cm × 2–6 mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 10–35 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, terete, 30–50 cm × 1–3 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, loose, 20–50-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 1–3, 3–7-veined, lance-ovate, shorter than pedicel, apex acuminate. |
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. |
substellate, 4–9 mm; tepals spreading, white with green or brownish midveins, lanceolate to elliptic, ± equal, withering and exposing capsule, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute; stamens included; anthers purple; pollen white; ovary crestless; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed; pedicel 10–30 mm. |
Seed | coat dull or shining; cells minutely roughened. |
coat shining; cells smooth, irregularly shaped, with ± sinuous walls. |
2n | = 14. |
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Allium acuminatum |
Allium tuberosum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Dry slopes and plains | Roadsides and other disturbed ground |
Elevation | 100–1500 m (300–4900 ft) | |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
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IA; NE; WI; se Asia [Introduced in North America]
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Discussion | Allium tuberosum is cultivated in China, Siberia, and North America, and is reported to be established in New England. It may escape anywhere the species is cultivated. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 261. | FNA vol. 26, p. 240. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. acuminatum var. cuspidatum, A. cuspidatum | |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 184, plate 196. (1838) | Rottler ex Sprengel: Syst. Veg. 2: 38. (1825) |
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