Allium subvillosum explained
Allium subvillosum, the spring garlic, is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, northern Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Canary Islands) and the Azores[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] where it might be introduced.[8]
Allium subvillosum is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are long and narrow, with long white hairs clearly visible to the naked eye. Umbel is hemispherical, with 15-20 flowers on long pedicels. Flowers are white with yellow anthers.[9] [10]
- formerly included[11] Allium subvillosum var. clusianum, now called Allium subhirsutum
Notes and References
- http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+subvillosum Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio subvilloso, Allium subvillosum
- Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest. 1935. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 26: 121. Allium album var. purpurascens
- Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Flora Libycae Specimen 19, Allium chamaemoly
- Maire, Réné Charles Joseph Ernest. 1926. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. Algiers xvii. 124, hybr., Allium humbertii
- http://www.botanicus.org/page/1311816 Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 249. Allium subhirsutum var. canariense
- Bonnet, Edmond & Barratte, Jean François Gustave 1896. Exploration Scientifique de la Tunisie. Catalogue Raisonné des Plantes Vasculaires de la Tunisie 414, Allium subhirsutum var. vernale
- http://floressilvestresdelmediterraneo.blogspot.com/2013/01/liliaceae-allium-subvillosum.html Flores Silvestres del Mediterráneo, Allium subvillosum
- Web site: Allium subvillosum Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f. . . 12 February 2022.
- http://www.botanicus.org/page/736331 Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1104.
- http://www.botanicus.org/page/223184 Ball, John. 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 16: 691
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=341363 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families