Allium denticulatum

Allium denticulatum

Taxobox
name = "Allium denticulatum"


image_width = 200px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Alliaceae
genus = "Allium"
species = "A. denticulatum"
binomial = "Allium denticulatum"
binomial_authority = (Ownbey & Aase) McNeal

"Allium denticulatum" is a species of wild onion known by the common name toothed wild onion. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the western Mojave Desert and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada.

This onion grows from a reddish brown spherical to oval-shaped bulb just over a centimeter long. It produces a stem up to 18 centimeters tall and a single cylindrical leaf up to twice as long as the stem. The inflorescence contains up to 30 flowers with deep pink to purplish tepals which are toothed at their tips.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8349,8354,8370 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ALDE6 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101350 Flora of North America]


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