Allium textile

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prairie onion
textile onion
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Allium textile
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. textile
Binomial name
Allium textile
A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Synonymy
  • Allium angulosum Pursh 1813, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
  • Allium aridum Rydb.
  • Allium geyeri var. textile (A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.) B. Boivin
  • Allium reticulatum Fraser ex G. Don 1827, illegitimate homonym , not J. Presl & C. Presl 1817
  • Allium reticulatum var. playanum M.E. Jones
  • Maligia laxa Raf.
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1913 illustration[4]

Allium textile (prairie onion or textile onion) is a common species of wild onion found in the central part of North America. Its native range extends across the Great Plains states from Oklahoma to Montana and Minnesota, plus the Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states from northern New Mexico to Washington, plus the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There is also a report of an isolated population in Indiana.[5][6]


Allium textile grows on dry, sunlit locations at elevations of 300-2400 m. It produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 2.5 cm long. There are no rhizomes. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 40 cm tall. Flowers are bell-shaped or urn-shaped, about 6 mm in diameter; tepals white or pink with reddish-brown midribs; pollen and anthers yellow.[5][7][8][9][10][11][12]


References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Tropicos
  3. ↑ The Plant List
  4. ↑ drawing from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the northern states and Canada. Vol. 1: 500.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Flora of North America v 26, p 243, Allium textile
  6. ↑ BONAP (Biota of North America Program), floristic synthesis, Allium textile
  7. ↑ Nelson, Aven & Macbride, James Francis. 1913. Botanical Gazette 56(6): 470.
  8. ↑ Presl, Jan Svatopluk, & Presl, Carl Bořivoj. 1819. Flora Čechica 73.
  9. ↑ Fraser, John. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 36.
  10. ↑ Cronquist, A.J., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren & Reveal. 1977. Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. 6: 1–584. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.
  11. ↑ Great Plains Flora Association. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains i–vii, 1–1392. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
  12. ↑ Moss, E. H. 1983. Flora of Alberta (ed. 2) i–xii, 1–687. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.





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