Allium nutans

Allium nutans
"Allium nutans" at the New York Botanical Garden
Allium nutans at the New York Botanical Garden
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Rhizirideum
Species:
A. nutans
Binomial name
Allium nutans
L. 1753 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830
Synonyms[1]

Allium nutans, English common name Siberian chives or blue chives, is a species of onion native to European Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Asiatic Russia (Altay Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, Western Siberia, Amur Oblast). It grows in wet meadows and other damp locations.[2][3][4]

Allium nutans has one or two bulbs up to 1.5 to 2.0 cm (5⁄8 to 3⁄4 in) in diameter. Scapes are winged and 2-angled, 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) tall. Leaves are flat, tapering at both ends, 6 to 10 mm (0.24 to 0.39 in) wide at the widest spot (rarely to 15 mm or 0.59 in), about half as long as the scapes. Umbels are spherical, with many pink to pale purple flowers.[2][5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Allium nutans". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  2. ^ a b Xu, Jiemei; Kamelin, Rudolf V. "Allium nutans". Flora of China. Vol. 24 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  3. ^ "Allium nutans". Plants for a Future.
  4. ^ По данным книги «Флора СССР» (см. раздел Литература).
  5. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 299.
  6. ^ photo of specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden
  7. ^ line drawing of Allium nutans, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 201, 1-4