meadow garlic, wild onion
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1–4+, without rhizome, with or without basal bulbels, often clustered, ovoid, 1–2.5 × 0.6–3 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brownish or grayish, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate, sometimes contorted, walls straight or ± sinuous. |
persistent, green at anthesis, 2–6, basally sheathing, sheaths extending less than 1/4 scape; blade solid, flat, channeled, not carinate, 20–50 cm × 1–7 mm, margins entire or denticulate, apex acute to obtuse. |
persistent, usually solitary, erect, terete, 10–60 cm × 1–5 mm. |
persistent, erect, loose, 0–60-flowered, hemispheric to globose, bulbils unknown or flowering pedicels replaced at least in part by bulbils; spathe bracts persistent, 3–4, 3–7-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate, beakless. |
urceolate-campanulate, 4–8 mm; tepals erect or spreading, white to pink or lavender, lanceolate to elliptic, ± equal, withering in fruit and exposing capsule, midribs somewhat thickened, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary, when present, crestless; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 8–70 mm. |
coat shining; cells each with minute, central papilla. |
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North America
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Varieties 6 (6 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
1. Flowering pedicels mostly or entirely replaced by bulbils, rarely producing capsules or seeds. | var. canadense |
1. Flowering pedicels all floriferous, bulbils almost unknown, producing capsules and seeds. | → 2 |
| var. fraseri |
2. Tepals pinkish to lilac. | → 3 |
3. Pedicels filiform; scape 10–30(–50) cm. | var. mobilense |
3. Pedicels stouter, not filiform; scape 10–60 cm. | → 4 |
4. Umbels 5–25-flowered; pedicels 3–4 times flowers; tepals thick. | var. ecristatum |
4. Umbels usually more than 25-flowered; pedicels 2–5 times flowers; tepals thin. | → 5 |
5. Flowers fragrant; scape 15–30 cm; nc Texas to s Oklahoma. | var. hyacinthoides |
5. Flowers odorless; scape 20–60 cm; n Oklahoma to n Arkansas, northward. | var. lavendulare |
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FNA vol. 26, p. 235. |
Liliaceae > Allium |
A. aaseae, A. abramsii, A. acuminatum, A. ampeloprasum, A. amplectens, A. anceps, A. atrorubens, A. bigelovii, A. bisceptrum, A. bolanderi, A. brandegeei, A. brevistylum, A. burlewii, A. campanulatum, A. cepa, A. cernuum, A. columbianum, A. constrictum, A. coryi, A. cratericola, A. crenulatum, A. crispum, A. cuthbertii, A. denticulatum, A. diabolense, A. dichlamydeum, A. dictuon, A. douglasii, A. drummondii, A. elmendorfii, A. falcifolium, A. fibrillum, A. fimbriatum, A. fistulosum, A. geyeri, A. gooddingii, A. haematochiton, A. hickmanii, A. hoffmanii, A. howellii, A. hyalinum, A. jepsonii, A. kunthii, A. lacunosum, A. lemmonii, A. macropetalum, A. macrum, A. madidum, A. membranaceum, A. monticola, A. munzii, A. neapolitanum, A. nevadense, A. nevii, A. nigrum, A. obtusum, A. oleraceum, A. paniculatum, A. parishii, A. parryi, A. parvum, A. passeyi, A. peninsulare, A. perdulce, A. platycaule, A. plummerae, A. praecox, A. punctum, A. rhizomatum, A. robinsonii, A. rotundum, A. runyonii, A. sanbornii, A. sativum, A. schoenoprasum, A. scilloides, A. serra, A. sharsmithiae, A. shevockii, A. simillimum, A. siskiyouense, A. speculae, A. stellatum, A. textile, A. tolmiei, A. tribracteatum, A. tricoccum, A. triquetrum, A. tuberosum, A. tuolumnense, A. unifolium, A. validum, A. victorialis, A. vineale, A. yosemitense |
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Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 1195. (1753) |
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