Allium spurium explained

Allium spurium is an East Asian species of wild onion native to Russia (Amur Oblast, Buryatiya, Yakutia, Zabaykalsky Krai), Mongolia and China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia).^{[1] [2]}

Allium spurium produces 1 or 2 bulbs, each up to 15 mm in diameter. Plant spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are flat, narrowly linear, about 3 mm wide. Scapes are up to 40 cm tall. Umbel is hemispheric, with many pink or lilac flowers.^{[1] [3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001060 Flora of China v 24 p 187
2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296654 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Don, George. 1827. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 6: 59.
4. Friesen, Nikolai Walterowich. Flora Sibirica (Araceae-Orchidaceae) 68 (1987), as Allium dauricum
5. Kitagawa, Masao. 1938. Report of the Institute of Scientific Research, Manchoukuo. [Tairiku kagakuin kenkyu hokoku] 2: 288., as Allium saxicola