Allium flavum
| Fragrant Yellow Onion | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. flavum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium flavum L. | |
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Allium flavum (also known as 'Small yellow onion',[3]) is a species of onion native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas, from France + Morocco to Iran + Kazakhstan. [4][5]
Allium flavum produces one bulb, and a scape up to 40 cm tall. Umbel contains bright yellow, bell shaped flowers with a pleasing scent.[6][7][8][9][10] It flowers between June and July and is hardy to USDA zones 4 to 8.[3]
- Varieties + Subspecies
Numerous names have been proposed but only the following are accepted by the World Checklist[2]
- Allium flavum subsp. flavum - Turkey, central + southern Europe
- Allium flavum subsp. ionochlorum Maire - Algeria, Morocco
- Allium flavum var. minus Boiss. - Turkey
- Allium flavum var. pilosum Kollmann & Koyuncu - Adana Province in Turkey
- Allium flavum subsp. tauricum (Besser ex Rchb.) K.Richt - Middle East, Greece, Romania, Ukraine, European Russia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan
It was awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, in the UK.[3]
References
- ↑ The Plant List
- 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- 1 2 3 Ellen Spector Platt Garlic, Onion, and Other Alliums, p. 150, at Google Books
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Allium flavum
- ↑ Dave's Garden Plant Files, Allium flavum, Fragrant Yellow Onion
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 298-299
- ↑ Soó von Bere, Károly Rezső. 1971. Acta Botanica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Budapest. 16(3-4): 365, as Allium flavum var. adriaticum
- ↑ Priszter, Szaniszló. 1972. Botanikai Közlemenyek. Budapest 59(1): 46, as Allium flavum f. bulbilliferum
- ↑ Allioni, Carlo. 1785. Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Indigenarum Pedemontii ii. 157., as Allium paniculatum
- ↑ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel 1837. Flora Telluriana 2: 19, as Kalabotis flavum
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