Allium sanbornii

Allium sanbornii
var. congdonii (herbarium specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
clade:	Angiosperms
clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Alliaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Species:	A. sanbornii
Binomial name
Allium sanbornii Alph.Wood

Allium sanbornii is a species of wild onion known by the common name Sanborn's onion. It is native to California and southern Oregon where it grows in the serpentine soils of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada foothills. This onion grows from a reddish brown bulb up to about 2.5 centimeters long. It produces a stem up to 60 centimeters long and a single cylindrical leaf which is about the same length. The inflorescence bears as many as 150 small flowers, each with tepals less than a centimeter long in shades of pink to white.

External links

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile
• Flora of North America

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