Chives, scientific name Allium schoenoprasum, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. Their close relatives include the common onions, garlic, shallot, leek, scallion, and Chinese onion.
Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist woodland. It is a wild relative of onion and garlic, which belong to the same genus as wild garlic, Allium.
Allium sphaerocephalon is a plant species in the Amaryllis family known as round-headed leek and also round-headed garlic, ball-head onion, and other variations on these names. Other names include Drumsticks, and in Germany, Kugellauch. Some publications use the alternate spelling A. sphaerocephalum. It is a hardy perennial plant.
Allium platycaule is a species of wild onion known as broadstemmed onion or flat-stem onion. It is native to northeastern California, south-central Oregon and northwestern Nevada. It is found on slopes of elevations of 1500–2500 m.
Salvatore Brullo is professor at University of Catania since 1980 teaching Systematic Botany, he degree in biological science during 1969. For six years he was Director of the Department of Botany, at the University of Catania.
Allium madidum, common name mountain swamp onion, is a plant species native to the west-central Idaho, southern Washington and eastern Oregon. It grows in wet meadows at elevations of 1100–2000 m.
Allium simillimum, the Simil Onion, or dwarf onion, is a plant species native to Idaho and Montana. It grows on sandy soils at high elevations in the mountains, 1800–3400 m.
Allium paniculatum, common name pale garlic It is widely cultivated and is now naturalized in several places outside its native range.
Allium rotundum, common name round-headed leek or purple-flowered garlic, is a Eurasian and North African species of wild onion. Its native range extends from Spain and Morocco to Iran and European Russia. It is sparingly naturalized in parts of the United States. The species grows in disturbed habitats such as roadsides, cultivated fields, etc.
Allium parciflorum is a plant species known only from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean. It is common at all elevations on those two islands but unknown elsewhere.
Allium tenuiflorum is a Mediterranean species of wild onion found in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Italy including Sardinia, and the Balkans.
Allium galileum is a species of onion known only from Palestine and Israel.
Allium achaium is a plant species endemic to Greece.
Allium agrigentinum is a plant species in the Amaryllis family, endemic to the Italian Island of Sicily in the Mediterranean. Initial collections were made in or near the Riserva naturale integrale Macalube di Aragona Wildlife Sanctuary.
Iris revoluta is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Iris. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from a small area in Salento, Italy. It has (sword-shaped) or falcate (sickle-shaped) glaucous leaves, tall slender stem with several short branches and 2–4 fragrant flowers in dark violet, purple, violet and pale violet. It is rarely cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
Allium cithaeronis is a plant species in the amaryllis family and is native to Greece.
Allium garganicum is a species of plant in the amaryllis family and is native to Italy.
Allium makrianum is a species of plant in the amaryllis family and is native to Greece.
Allium phitosianum is a species of plant in the amaryllis family and is native to Greece.
Allium rausii is a species of plant in the amaryllis family and is native to Greece.
