Allium nevadense |
Allium textile |
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Nevada onion |
prairie onion, textile onion, white wild onion |
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Bulbs | 1–3, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, with 0–2 stalked, basal bulbels, ovoid, 1–2 × 0.8–1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, membranous, usually prominently cellular-reticulate, cells ± transversely elongate, intricately contorted, without fibers; inner coats white or pinkish, cells elongate, intricately contorted. |
1–3+, not rhizomatous, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1.2–2.5 × 1–2 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, gray or brown, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish, cells vertically elongate and regular or obscure. |
Leaves | persistent, 1, basally sheathing, sheath not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, terete, 10–20 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, green at anthesis, 2, sheathing; blade solid, ± straight, channeled, semiterete, 10–40 cm × 1–3(–5) mm, margins entire or denticulate. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, ± solid, terete, 5–15 cm × 1–2.5 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 5–30(–40) cm × 1–3 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, compact, 5–25-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 3–7-veined, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
persistent, erect, compact to ± loose, 15–30-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 3, usually 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
Flowers | stellate, 7–12 mm; tepals spreading, white or pinkish white with dark pink midveins, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, becoming papery in fruit, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate; stamens included; anthers purple; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, prominent, ± triangular, margins entire to notched or shallowly toothed; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; pedicel 8–16 mm. |
urceolate to campanulate, 5–7 mm; tepals erect, white or rarely pink, with red or reddish brown midribs; outer whorl broadly ovate to lanceolate, unequal, becoming callous-keeled and permanently investing capsule, margins often obscurely toothed apically, apex obtuse to acuminate; inner whorl narrower, margins entire, apex distinctly spreading; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary ± conspicuously crested; processes 6, central, distinct or connate in pairs across septa, ± erect, rounded, to 1 mm, margins entire, becoming variously developed or obsolete in fruit; style linear, equaling filaments; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel 5–20 mm. |
Seed | coat dull; cells minutely roughened. |
coat shining; cells ± smooth, without central papillae. |
2n | = 14, 28. |
= 14, 28. |
Allium nevadense |
Allium textile |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | Flowering May–Jun. |
Habitat | Sandy, rocky, or occasionally clay soils on desert plains and hillsides | Dry plains and hills |
Elevation | 1400–1700 m (4600–5600 ft) | 300–2400 m (1000–7900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; NV; OR; UT
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CO; IA; ID; KS; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; MB; SK
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 248. | FNA vol. 26, p. 243. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
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Synonyms | A. nevadense var. macropetalum | A. aridum, A. reticulatum, A. reticulatum var. playanum |
Name authority | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 351, plate 38, figs. 1–3. (1871) | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 56: 470. (1913) |
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