Allium textile

Allium textile (prairie onion or textile onion) is a common species of wild onion found in the central part of North America.

Prairie onion
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	A. subg. Amerallium
Species:	A. textile
Binomial name
Allium textile A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.[2]
Synonyms[3][4]
Synonymy Allium angulosum Pursh 1813, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Allium aridum Rydb. Allium geyeri var. textile (A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.) B. Boivin Allium reticulatum Fraser ex G. Don 1827, illegitimate homonym, not J. Presl & C. Presl 1817 Allium reticulatum var. playanum M.E. Jones Maligia laxa Raf.

1913 illustration^[5]

Description

A. textile produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 2.5 cm long. There are no rhizomes. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 40 cm tall. Flowers are bell-shaped or urn-shaped, about 6 mm in diameter; tepals white or pink with reddish-brown midribs; pollen and anthers yellow.^{[citation needed]}

Taxonomy

A. textile is placed within section Amerallium, subgenus Amerallium.^[6][7]

Distribution and habitat

The native range of A. textile extends across the Great Plains states from Oklahoma to Montana and Minnesota, plus the Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states from northern New Mexico to Washington, plus the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There is also a report of an isolated population in Indiana.^[8][9] Allium textile grows on dry, sunlit locations at elevations of 300–2400 m.^{[8][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer - Allium textile". NatureServe Explorer Allium textile. NatureServe. 2022-06-22. Retrieved 22 Jun 2022.
2. "Allium textile". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
3. "Allium textile". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
4. "Allium textile". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
5. drawing from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 1: 500.
6. Choi et al 2012.
7. Choi et al 2011.
8. McNeal Jr., Dale W.; Jacobsen, T. D. (2002). "Allium textile". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 26. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
9. "Allium textile". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
10. Nelson, Aven; Macbride, James Francis (1913). "Western Plant Studies. II". Botanical Gazette. 56 (6): 470. doi:10.1086/331195. S2CID 224844931.
11. Presl, Jan Svatopluk; Presl, Carl Bořivoj (1819). Flora Čechica. p. 73.
12. Don, George (1832) [written 1826]. "A Monograph of the Genus Allium". Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. Vol. 6. The Society. p. 36.
13. Cronquist, A.J.; Holmgren, A. H.; Holmgren, N. H.; Reveal, J. L.; Holmgren, P. K., eds. (1977). "Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A.". Intermountain Flora. Vol. 6. New York: Hafner Publishing Company. pp. 1–584.
14. Great Plains Flora Association, ed. (1986). Flora of the Great Plains. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
15. Moss, E. H. (1983). Flora of Alberta (2nd ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802025081.

Bibliography

• Choi, Hyeok Jae; Cota-Sánchez, J. Hugo (September 2010). "A taxonomic revision of Allium (Alliaceae) in the Canadian prairie provinces" (PDF). Botany. 88 (9): 787–809. doi:10.1139/B10-056. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
• Choi, Hyeok Jae; Giussani, Liliana M.; Jang, Chang Gee; Oh, Byoung Un; Cota-Sánchez, J. Hugo (June 2012). "Systematics of disjunct northeastern Asian and northern North American Allium (Amaryllidaceae)". Botany. 90 (6): 491–508. doi:10.1139/b2012-031. hdl:11336/68813.
• Choi, Hyeok Jae; Davis, Arthur R.; Cota-Sánchez, J. Hugo (2011). "Comparative Floral Structure of Four New World Allium (Amaryllidaceae) Species". Systematic Botany. 36 (4): 870–882. doi:10.1600/036364411x604895. S2CID 85573965.

External links

• "Allium textile". Plants for a Future.