Allium geyeri |
Allium monticola |
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Geyer's onion |
San Bernardino Mountain onion |
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Bulbs | 2–10+, not rhizomatous, ovoid or more elongate, 1–2.5 × 0.8–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, gray or brown, reticulate, cells rather coarse-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure. |
1–3+, generally with 1–2 stalked, basal bulbels, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–2.2 × 1.2–2 cm; outer bulb coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, gray-brown, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers; inner coats white to pinkish, cells obscurely quadrate. |
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Leaves | persistent, usually green at anthesis, usually 3–5, sheathing less than 1/4 scape; blade solid, ± straight, flat, channeled, (6–)12–30 cm × 1–3(–5) mm, margins entire or denticulate. |
persistent, withering just at tip by anthesis, 1, basally sheathing, sheath not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, terete, 9–35 cm × 2–4 mm. |
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Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, terete or somewhat 2-angled, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 6–25 cm × 2–4 mm. |
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Umbel | persistent, erect, compact, 10–25-flowered, hemispheric to globose, not producing bulbils, or 0–5-flowered, largely replaced by ovoid, acuminate bulbils; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, mostly 1-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate, beakless. |
persistent, erect, compact, 8–25-flowered, conic, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 5–7-veined, broadly ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
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Flowers | urceolate-campanulate, (4–)6–8(–10) mm; tepals erect or spreading, pink to white, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, not withering in fruit and permanently investing fruit, or withering if fruit not produced, midribs papillose, becoming callous-keeled, margins often obscurely toothed, apex obtuse to acuminate; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary when present, inconspicuously crested; processes 6, central, low, distinct or connate in pairs across septa, ± erect, rounded, margins entire, becoming variously developed or obsolete in fruit; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel becoming rigid and stiffly spreading in fruit, 8–13 mm. |
urceolate, 12–19 mm; tepals erect, rose-purple distally, often white proximally, lance-linear to lance-ovate, ± equal, becoming rigid in fruit, margins entire, apex long-acuminate, flaring at tip; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, ± prominent, ± triangular to ± linear, margins entire; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 5–12 mm. |
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Seed | coat shining; cells each with minute, central papilla. |
coat dull; cells minutely roughened. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Allium geyeri |
Allium monticola |
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Phenology | Flowering late May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Loose rock and talus slopes, alpine ridges and talus | |||||
Elevation | 1400–3200 m (4600–10500 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
w North America
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Allium monticola is known only from the southern California mountains. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 237. | FNA vol. 26, p. 250. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium | ||||
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Synonyms | A. monticola var. keckii, A. parishii var. keckii, A. peirsonii | |||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 227. (1879) | Davidson: Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 20: 51. (1921) | ||||
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