Allium delicatulum explained

Allium delicatulum is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Western Siberia, Xinjiang, and Kazakhstan.^[1] It grows in open grasslands and deserts.^[2]

Allium delicatulum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink tepals with dark red midveins.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=295421 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001019 Flora of China v 24 p 198. 迷人薤 mi ren xie Allium delicatulum
3. http://www.botanicus.org/page/736360 Roemer, Johann Jakob, & Schultes, Josef August. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1133.
4. Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.