Allium ramosum

Fragrant-flowered Garlic Chinese chives
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Tribe:	Allieae
Genus:	Allium
Species:	A. ramosum
Binomial name
Allium ramosum L. 1753 not Georgi 1779 nor Jacq. 1781
Synonyms[1][2]
Synonymy Aglitheis tatarica (L.f.) Raf. Allium beckerianum Regel Allium diaphanum Janka Allium lancipetalum Y.P.Hsu Allium odorum L. Allium potaninii Regel Allium ramosum Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 nor Jacq. 1781 Allium senescens Miq. Allium tataricum L.f. 1782 Allium tataricum Dryand. 1811, illegitimate homonym not L. 1782 Allium umbellatum Haller f. ex Steud. Allium weichanicum Palib. Butomissa tatarica (L.f.) Salisb., not validly published Moly odorum (L.) Moench

Allium ramosum, called Fragrant-flowered Garlic^[3] or Chinese chives^[4][5] is a northern Asian species of wild onion native to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang).^{[2][6][7][8][9]} The species is also naturalized in a few places in eastern Europe.^[2][10] In its native range, it grows at elevations of 500–2100 m.^[11]

Allium ramosum has clusters of narrow bulbs. Scapes are up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are linear, keeled, shorter than the scape. Umbels have many flowers crowded together. Tepals are white or pale red with a red midvein.^[11][12][13]

References

1. The Plant List
2. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
3. Sunny Gardens, Allium ramosum, Fragrant-Flowered Garlic
4. All Things Plant, Photo of the bloom of Chinese Chives (Allium ramosum) posted by zuzu
5. Plantsw for a Future, Chinese chives, Allium ramosum
6. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
7. Sheremetova, S.A., Ebel, A.L. & Buko, T.E. (2011). Supplement to the flora of Kemerovo region since 2001 till 2010. Turczaninowia 14(1): 65-74.
8. Choi, H.J. & Oh, B.U. (2011). A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 153-211.
9. Veklich,T.N. (2012). Novelties of vascular flora of the Zeyskiy reserve (Amur region). Turczaninowia 15(2): 51-54.
10. Seregin, A. & Korniak, T. (2013). Allium ramosum L. (Amaryllidaceae), a neglected alien in the European flora and its oldest record from Poland. Phytotaxa 134: 61-64.
11. Flora of China v 24 p 180 野韭 ye jiu Allium ramosum
12. Y.P.Hsu. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Yangling 7(4): 259.
13. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.