Allium cuthbertii |
Allium campanulatum |
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striped garlic |
dusky onion, rosy Sierra onion, Sierra onion |
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Bulbs | usually solitary, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1–1.8 × 1–1.2 cm; outer coats enclosing single bulb, grayish, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate, regular. |
1–3, producing cluster of stalked basal bulbels distal to roots or filiform rhizomes to 10 cm and terminated by bulbels, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.6–1.4 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown to gray, membranous, cellular-reticulate, cells ± quadrate, walls very sinuous, without fibers; inner coats pink to white, cells obscure, vertically elongate. |
Leaves | persistent, withering by anthesis, 2, sheathing; blade solid, flat, linear, 12–35 cm × 3–6 mm, margins entire or denticulate. |
persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat, distinctly concave-convex, 8–40 cm × 1–5 mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, terete or ± 3–4-angled, 20–40 cm × 1–3.5 mm. |
persistent, solitary or clustered, 1–3, erect, solid, terete, 10–30 cm × 1–5 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, loose, 10–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 5–7-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
persistent, erect, loose, 10–50-flowered, ± globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 3–5-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
Flowers | ± stellate, 7–9 mm; tepals spreading to reflexed, white to pinkish or purple, lanceolate, ± equal, remaining thin and becoming strongly reflexed in fruit, margins entire, apex acute; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, irregularly contorted; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 14–45 mm. |
stellate, 5–8 mm; tepals spreading, rose to purple (rarely white) with darker purple crescent adaxially basally, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, carinate in fruit, becoming erect, ± shiny, rigid, margins entire, apex acuminate, strongly involute at tip; stamens included; anthers purple; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, prominent, low, central, triangular, margins minutely denticulate; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 10–20 mm, becoming flexuous and mostly strongly deflexed in fruit. |
Seed | coat shining; cells each with obscure, central papilla. |
coat shining; cells each with minute, central papilla. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14, 28. |
Allium cuthbertii |
Allium campanulatum |
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Phenology | Flowering May–early Jun. | Flowering late May–Aug. |
Habitat | On granitic “flat-rocks” of Piedmont and in sand on coastal plains | Generally sandy soils on open or shaded slopes |
Elevation | 0–300 m (0–1000 ft) | 600–2600 m (2000–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; NC; SC
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CA; NV; OR
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 241. | FNA vol. 26, p. 256. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. austinae, A. bidwelliae, A. campanulatum var. bidwelliae | |
Name authority | Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 264, 1328. (1903) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 231. (1879) |
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