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

1. http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+subvillosum Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio subvilloso, Allium subvillosum
2. Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest. 1935. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 26: 121. Allium album var. purpurascens
3. Viviani, Domenico. 1824. Flora Libycae Specimen 19, Allium chamaemoly
4. Maire, Réné Charles Joseph Ernest. 1926. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. Algiers xvii. 124, hybr., Allium humbertii
5. http://www.botanicus.org/page/1311816 Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 249. Allium subhirsutum var. canariense
6. 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
7. http://floressilvestresdelmediterraneo.blogspot.com/2013/01/liliaceae-allium-subvillosum.html Flores Silvestres del Mediterráneo, Allium subvillosum
8. Web site: Allium subvillosum Salzm. ex Schult. & Schult.f. . . 12 February 2022.
9. http://www.botanicus.org/page/736331 Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1104.
10. http://www.botanicus.org/page/223184 Ball, John. 1879. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 16: 691
11. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=341363 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families