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Allium lemmonii

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Species of flowering plant

Lemmon's onion
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Amerallium
Species: A. lemmonii
Binomial name
Allium lemmonii
S.Wats.
Synonyms
  • Allium anceps var. lemmonii (S.Watson) Jeps.
  • Allium incisum A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.
  • Allium scissum A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.

Allium lemmonii is a species of wild onion known by the common name Lemmon's onion, named for botanist John Gill Lemmon (1831–1908). It is native to the western United States, at elevations of 1200–1900 m in the Great Basin of Utah, Nevada, northern and eastern California, eastern Oregon, southwestern Idaho.

Lemmon's onion grows from a bulb one and a half to two centimeters wide and has a short, flattened stem up to 20 cm tall, which is thin along the edges. Atop the stem is an inflorescence of 10 to 40 bell-shaped flowers, which may be white to pink. The stamens may be purple or yellow; pollen is yellow. The ovary has a distinctive ridged mound shape in which all of the ovary parts appear melded together. This is a common plant in its native range. It favors dry clay soils.

References

  1. Tropicos
  2. The Plant List
  3. Watson, Sereno. 1879. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 234.
  4. ^ USDA Plants Profile
  5. Flora of North America v 26 p 270, Allium lemmonii
  6. BONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium lemmonii
  7. Jepson Manual Treatment
  8. Photo gallery
  9. Cronquist, A.J., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren & Reveal. 1977. Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. 6: 1–584. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.
Taxon identifiers
Allium lemmonii


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