Allium cuthbertii

striped garlic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Allieae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. cuthbertii
Binomial name
Allium cuthbertii
Small
Synonyms

Allium sanbornii var. jepsonii Ownbey & Aase ex Traub

Allium cuthbertii, common name striped garlic, is a plant species native to the southeastern United States. It occurs at elevations less than 300 m in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and northeastern Florida.[1][2]

Allium cuthbertii produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 2 cm long. Scapes are round, triangular or square in cross-section, up to 40 cm tall. Flowers are about 8 mm across, white, pink or purple; anthers and pollen yellow.[1][3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Flora of North America v 26 p 241,Allium cuthbertii
  2. BONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium cuthbertii
  3. Small, John Kunkel. 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States 264, 1328.
  4. Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill
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