Allium unifolium

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Allium unifolium

Allium unifolium, the one-leaf onion or American garlic,[4] is a North American species of wild onion. It is native to the coastal mountain ranges of California, Oregon, and Baja California.[1] It grows on clay soils including serpentine, at elevations up to 1100 m.[5][6]

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Allium unifolium
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Amerallium
Species:
A. unifolium
Binomial name
Allium unifolium
Kellogg 1863
Synonyms[1][2][3]
Synonymy
  • Allium grandisceptrum Davidson
  • Allium unifolium Vieill. ex Greene 1894, illegitimate homonym not Kellogg 1863
  • Allium unifolium var. lacteum Greene
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Allium unifolium, despite its name, usually has 2–3 flat leaves up to 50 cm long. Bulbs, though, are usually solitary, egg-shaped, up to 2 cm long, often formed at the end of rhizomes spreading out from the parent plant. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 80 cm tall. Flowers are up to 15 mm across; tepals usually pink but occasionally white; anthers yellow or purple.[5][7][8][9]

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[10]

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