Biology:Allium tribracteatum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Threebract onion
Allium tribracteatum - Flickr - pellaea.jpg

Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. tribracteatum
Binomial name
Allium tribracteatum
Synonyms[2]
  • Allium tolmiei Baker ex J.M.Coult. 1885, illegitimate homonym not Baker 1876

Allium tribracteatum, known by the common name Threebract onion,[3] is a species of wild onion[4] found in California .

Distribution and habitat

The plant is endemic to California , where it is known only from the slopes of the Sierra Nevada in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties.[4][5][6]

Description

Allium tribracteatum is a small onion plant producing a stem only a few centimeters long from an oval-shaped bulb. There are two leaves which are usually much longer than the stem. The inflorescence contains up to 30 petite white to purple flowers, each less than a centimeter long. Tepals are white to pink with red or purple midveins; anthers purple; pollen gray.[4][7][5] Flowers bloom March to May.[5]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q4732940 entry