DRUMMOND'S WILD ONION
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Allium drummondii Regel
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| Gove County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-10 inches |
| Family: Amaryllidaceae - Amaryllis Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May |
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| Stems: | | Stems absent. Bulbs ovoid, 2/5 to 4/5 inch diam. | | Leaves: | | Mostly basal, sessile, parallel-veined, channeled, V-shaped in cross-section, 3.2 to 8 inches long, 1/25 to 1/6 inch wide. | | Inflorescences: | | Scape 4-10 inches; umbels 10-25-flowered; bracts 2-3, 1-nerved, membranous. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels 1/5 to 4/5 inch; flowers not replaced by bulbils; perianth campanulate; tepals 6, petal-like, distinct, becoming papery and rigid in fruit, spreading, pink or white, often with rose-colored midrib, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 1/5 to 1/3 inch; stamens 6, adnate to tepals proximally; pistil 1. | | Fruits: | | Capsules not crested; seeds usually 6, black, ovoid, shiny. | | Habitat: | | Mixed-grass and shortgrass prairies | | Distribution: | | West 2/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Comments: | | Allium species were historically included in a broadly defined Liliaceae in most state and regional floras and checklists covering Kansas or the Great Plains.
Named for English botanist James Drummond. |
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