Allium sanbornii

Taxobox
name = "Allium sanbornii"


image_width = 260px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Asparagales
familia = Alliaceae
genus = "Allium"
species = "A. sanbornii"
binomial = "Allium sanbornii"
binomial_authority = Alph.Wood
synonyms =

"Allium sanbornii" is a species of wild onion known by the common name Sanborn's onion. It is native to California and southern Oregon where it grows in the serpentine soils of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada foothills. This onion grows from a reddish brown bulb up to about 2.5 centimeters long. It produces a stem up to 60 centimeters long and a single cylindrical leaf which is about the same length. The inflorescence bears as many as 150 small flowers, each with tepals less than a centimeter long in shades of pink to white.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?8349,8354,8411 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ALSA USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101398 Flora of North America]