Allium parryi |
Allium coryi |
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Parry's fringe onion |
yellowflower onion |
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Bulbs | 1–3, not clustered on stout, primary rhizome, ovoid to globose, 0.8–1.4 × 0.8–1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown to reddish brown, chartaceous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers; inner coats light brown, cells obscure, quadrate. |
1–5, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1–1.8 × 0.7–1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, open, fibrous; inner coats whitish or brownish, cells intricately contorted, walls not sinuous. |
Leaves | persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 1, basally sheathing, sheath not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, terete, 12–28 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, green at anthesis, 3–5, sheathing; blade solid, flat, channeled, 10–30 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 5–25 cm × 1–3 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, ± terete, 10–30 cm × 1–3 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, loose, 8–50-flowered, hemispheric, bulbels unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 4–6-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex setaceous. |
persistent, erect, compact or ± loose, usually 10–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
Flowers | campanulate, 6–9 mm; tepals erect, white to pink, becoming deep pink to red after anthesis, lanceolate to lance-ovate, ± equal, becoming ± rigid in fruit, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate, flaring distally; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 6, prominent, ± triangular, margins ± irregularly toothed, apex emarginate; style linear, equaling stamens or shorter; stigma capitate, 3-lobed, lobes slender, recurved; pedicel 6–20 mm, flexuous in fruit. |
campanulate to ± stellate, 6–9 mm; tepals spreading, bright yellow, sometimes tinged with red, fading with age and sometimes upon drying, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery and rigid in fruit, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute, midribs somewhat thickened; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crestless or rarely crested; processes 6, central, low, sometimes distinct or connate in pairs across septa, rounded, margins entire; style linear, ± equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel 5–20 mm. |
Seed | coat shining; cells minutely roughened. |
coat shining; cells smooth. |
2n | = 14. |
= 14. |
Allium parryi |
Allium coryi |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Jul. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Clay or sandy soils on dry slopes | Rocky slopes and plains, mountains |
Elevation | 900–2200 m (3000–7200 ft) | 800–1400 m (2600–4600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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TX |
Discussion | Allium coryi is known only from western Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 253. | FNA vol. 26, p. 239. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | A. fimbriatum var. parryi, A. kessleri | |
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 231. (1879) | M. E. Jones: Contr. W. Bot. 17: 21. (1930) |
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