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Allium dichlamydeum

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Coastal onion

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. dichlamydeum
Binomial name
Allium dichlamydeum
Synonyms[2]
  • Allium serratum var. dichlamydeum (Greene) M.E. Jones

Allium dichlamydeum is a species of wild onion known by the common name coastal onion. It is endemic to California where it grows on sea cliffs and hills overlooking the ocean, from Santa Barbara County to Mendocino County.[3][4][5]

Description

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Allium dichlamydeum grows from a brown or gray bulb 1.0–1.5 cm wide. It has a stout naked green stem surrounded by 3–6 long onion leaves. Atop the thick stem is an inflorescence of 5–30 flowers. Each flower has six oval-shaped dull-pointed tepals in shades of bright magenta to fuchsia and each flower is about a centimeter wide.[4][6][7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ USDA Plants Profile
  4. ^ a b Flora of North America v 260 p 264, Allium dichlamydeum
  5. ^ BONAP (biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium dichlamydeum
  6. ^ Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  7. ^ Calphoto, University of California @ Berkeley, Photo gallery, Allium dichlamydeum
  8. ^ Greene, Edward Lee. 1888. Pittonia 1(11): 166.
  9. ^ Jones, Marcus Eugene. 1902. Contributions to Western Botany 10: 84.
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