Allium rotundum

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Allium rotundum
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Allium rotundum
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. rotundum
Binomial name
Allium rotundum
L. 1762 not All. 1785 nor Wimm. & Grab. 1824
Synonyms [1]
Synonymy
  • Allium ampeloprasumThunb. 1794, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium ampeloprasum var. paterfamilias(Boiss.) Nyman
  • Allium ampeloprasum subsp. paterfamilias(Boiss.) K.Richt.
  • Allium baumannianumK.Koch
  • Allium cambiasiiDe Not.
  • Allium cilicicumBoiss.
  • Allium descendensPall. ex Schult. & Schult.f. 1830, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium erectumG.Don
  • Allium gracilescensSommier & Levier
  • Allium jajlaeVved.
  • Allium jajlae var. baidarenseSeregin
  • Allium multiflorumKunth 1843, illegitimate homonym not Desf. 1798
  • Allium paterfamiliasBoiss.
  • Allium porphyroprasumHeldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.
  • Allium preslianumSchult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium rotundifoliumLumn. ex Steud.
  • Allium rubellumC.Presl
  • Allium rubicundumNiven ex G.Don
  • Allium scariosum Jan ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium scorodoprasum subsp. jajlae(Vved.) Stearn
  • Allium scorodoprasum subsp. rotundum(L.) Stearn
  • Allium scorodoprasum subsp. waldsteinii(G.Don) Stearn
  • Allium tmoleumO.Schwarz
  • Allium waldsteinianumSchult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium waldsteiniiG.Don
  • Porrum polyanthumFourr.
  • Porrum rotundum(L.) Rchb.

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. [2] It is sparingly naturalized in parts of the United States (Michigan and Iowa). [3] The species grows in disturbed habitats such as roadsides, cultivated fields, etc. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Allium rotundum produces large clumps of as many as 50 egg-shaped bulbs, each up to 1.5 cm long. Leaves are up to 40 cm long. Scapes are up to 90 cm tall. Umbels look round from a distance, and can contain as many as 200 flowers. Flowers are bell-shaped, up to 7 mm across; tepals purple, sometimes with white margins; anthers yellow or purple; pollen yellow or white. [4] [10] [11]

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<i>Allium cratericola</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Allium praecox</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Allium paradoxum</i> Species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae

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<i>Allium cuthbertii</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Allium douglasii</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Allium desertorum</i> Species of plant

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<i>Iris subbiflora</i> Species of plant

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References

  1. The Plant List
  2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. BONAP (Biota of North America Program) 2013 county distribution map, Allium rotundum
  4. 1 2 Flora of North America v 26 p 244, Allium rotundum
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  6. Maire, R. (1958). Flore de l'Afrique du Nord 5: 1-307. Paul Lechevalier, Paris.
  7. Davis, P.H. (ed.) (1984). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands 8: 1-632. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
  8. Townsend, C.C. & Guest, E. (eds.) (1985). Flora of Iraq 8: 1-440. Ministry of Agriculture & Agrarian Reform, Baghdad.
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