Allium spurium

Allium spurium is an East Asian species of wild onion native to Russia (Amur Oblast, Buryatiya, Yakutia, Zabaykalsky Krai), Mongolia and China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia).[2][1]

岩韭 yan jiu
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. spurium
Binomial name
Allium spurium
G. Don 1827 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830
Synonyms[1]
  • Allium dauricum N.Friesen
  • Allium saxicola Kitag.
  • Allium spirale Kunth 1843, illegitimate homonym not Willd. 1814

Allium spurium produces 1 or 2 bulbs, each up to 15 mm in diameter. Plant spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are flat, narrowly linear, about 3 mm wide. Scapes are up to 40 cm tall. Umbel is hemispheric, with many pink or lilac flowers.[2][3][4][5]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Flora of China v 24 p 187
  3. Don, George. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 59.
  4. Friesen, Nikolai Walterowich. Flora Sibirica (Araceae-Orchidaceae) 68 (1987), as Allium dauricum
  5. Kitagawa, Masao. 1938. Report of the Institute of Scientific Research, Manchoukuo. [Tairiku kagakuin kenkyu hokoku] 2: 288., as Allium saxicola
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