Allium subvillosum
Appearance
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Spring garlic | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
Subfamily: | Allioideae |
Genus: | Allium |
Species: | A. subvillosum
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Binomial name | |
Allium subvillosum | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Species synonymy
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Allium subvillosum, the spring garlic, is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, northern Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Canary Islands) and the Azores[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] where it might be introduced.[9]
Allium subvillosum is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are long and narrow, with long white hairs clearly visible to the naked eye. Umbel is hemispherical, with 15-20 flowers on long pedicels. Flowers are white with yellow anthers.[10][11]
- formerly included[12]
Allium subvillosum var. clusianum, now called Allium subhirsutum
References
[edit]- ^ The Plant List
- ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio subvilloso, Allium subvillosum
- ^ Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest. 1935. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 26: 121. Allium album var. purpurascens
- ^ Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Flora Libycae Specimen 19, Allium chamaemoly
- ^ Maire, Réné Charles Joseph Ernest. 1926. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. Algiers xvii. 124, hybr., Allium humbertii
- ^ Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 249. Allium subhirsutum var. canariense
- ^ Bonnet, Edmond & Barratte, Jean François Gustave 1896. Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie. Catalogue Raisonné des Plantes Vasculaires de la Tunisie 414, Allium subhirsutum var. vernale
- ^ Flores Silvestres del Mediterráneo, Allium subvillosum
- ^ "Allium subvillosum Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f." Flora-On. Retrieved 12 February 2022.
- ^ Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1104.
- ^ Ball, John. 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 16: 691
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families