Allium fibrillum
| Blue Mountain onion Cuddy Mountain onion | |
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| Allium fibrillum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. fibrillum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium fibrillum M.E.Jones | |
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Allium fibrillum is a North American species of wild onion known by the common names Blue Mountain onion and Cuddy Mountain onion.[2] It is native to the northwestern United States from eastern Washington and Oregon through Idaho to Montana.[3][4]
This onion grows from a bulb or a cluster of a few bulbs which are rounded in shape and measure up to 1.2 centimeters long by 1 wide. There are two leaves which are flat and linear in shape and measure up to 24 centimeters in length. They usually begin to wither from the tip by the time the plant is in flower. The flowering stalk is up to 15 centimeters tall and bears an umbel of 10 to 20 bell-shaped white flowers with green or pink midribs.[4][5] The fruit is a capsule.[6] The plant reproduces sexually by seed or vegetatively by sprouting from its bulb.[3]
This plant grows on mountaintops and scablands in sagebrush, shrubsteppe, and grassland habitat.[3]
References
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ USDA Plants Profile
- 1 2 3 Williams, Tara Y. 1990. Allium fibrillum. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.
- 1 2 Allium fibrillum. The Nature Conservancy.
- ↑ Allium fibrillum. Flora of North America.
- ↑ Allium fibrillum. Washington Burke Museum.