Allium flavum

Fragrant Yellow Onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. flavum
Binomial name
Allium flavum
L.
Synonyms[1][2]

Allium flavum is a species of onion native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas, from France + Morocco to Iran + Kazakhstan. [3][4]

Allium flavum produces one bulb, and a scape up to 40 cm tall. Umbel contains bright yellow, bell shaped flowers with a pleasing scent.[5][6][7][8][9]

Varieties + Subspecies

Numerous names have been proposed but only the following are accepted by the World Checklist[2]

References

  1. The Plant List
  2. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Altervista Flora Italiana, Allium flavum
  4. Dave's Garden Plant Files, Allium flavum, Fragrant Yellow Onion
  5. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 298-299
  6. Soó von Bere, Károly Rezső. 1971. Acta Botanica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Budapest. 16(3-4): 365, as Allium flavum var. adriaticum
  7. Priszter, Szaniszló. 1972. Botanikai Közlemenyek. Budapest 59(1): 46, as Allium flavum f. bulbilliferum
  8. Allioni, Carlo. 1785. Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Indigenarum Pedemontii ii. 157., as Allium paniculatum
  9. Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel 1837. Flora Telluriana 2: 19, as Kalabotis flavum
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