Allium geyeri |
Allium nevii |
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Geyer's onion |
Nevius' garlic, Nevius' 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. |
1–5+, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid, 1–2 × 1–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, light brown, membranous, ± reticulate, cells quadrate to polygonal, vertically oblong, without fibers; inner coats white or pink, cells obscure, 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. |
usually persistent, withering from tip at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat or ± channeled, falcate, 12–25 cm × 2–3 mm, margins entire. |
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Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, terete or somewhat 2-angled, 10–50 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, 1–3, erect, solid, terete or somewhat flattened, 2-edged, not expanded proximal to inflorescence, 15–30 cm × 1–3 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, 10–30-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 5–6-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acute. |
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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. |
campanulate to substellate, 6–8 mm; tepals spreading, rose-colored, lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire, apex acuminate; stamens ± equaling tepals, or exserted; anthers blue-gray; pollen light blue or gray; ovary distinctly crested; processes 6, 2 per lobe, low, rounded, margins entire; style exserted, linear; stigma capitate, unlobed; pedicel 8–12 mm. |
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Seed | coat shining; cells each with minute, central papilla. |
coat dull; cells smooth. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Allium geyeri |
Allium nevii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | |||||
Habitat | Heavy, rocky soils, wet meadows, or along streams | |||||
Elevation | 30–1900 m (100–6200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
w North America
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OR; WA
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (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. 267. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium | ||||
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Synonyms | A. douglasii var. nevii | |||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 227. (1879) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 231. (1879) | ||||
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