Allium unifolium explained

Allium unifolium, the one-leaf onion or American garlic, is a North American species of wild onion. It is native to the coastal mountain ranges of California, Oregon, and Baja California.^[1] It grows on clay soils including serpentine, at elevations up to 1100 m.^{[2] [3]}

Allium unifolium, despite its name, usually has 2–3 flat leaves up to 50 cm long. Bulbs, though, are usually solitary, egg-shaped, up to 2 cm long, often formed at the end of rhizomes spreading out from the parent plant. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 80 cm tall. Flowers are up to 15 mm across; tepals usually pink but occasionally white; anthers yellow or purple.^{[2] [4] [5] [6]}

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[7]

External links

• United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296887 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101413 Flora of North America, v 26 p 258
3. http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Allium+unifolium Calflora taxon report 240, Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals, including the Consortium of California Herbaria. Allium unifolium
4. Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley.
5. Kellogg, Albert. 1863. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2: 112, f. 35.
6. Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1969. Vascular Cryptogams, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons. 1: 1–914. In C. L. Hitchcock Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
7. Web site: RHS Plantfinder – Allium unifolium. Royal Horticultural Society . 2002 . 5 January 2018.