Allium speculae

Little River Canyon Onion
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Allieae
Genus: Allium
Species: A. speculae
Binomial name
Allium speculae
Ownbey & Aase

Allium speculae, the Little River Canyon Onion, is a plant species native to the US States of Georgia and Alabama, especially in the vicinity of the Little River Canyon National Preserve in northeastern Alabama. It occurs on sandy and rocky soils in the Piedmont region at elevations of about 300 m.[1]

Allium speculae produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 5 cm long. This species does not have rhizomes. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Flowers bell-shaped, up to 6 mm across; tepals pink; anthers and pollen pale yellow; ovary crested.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Flora of North America, v 26 p 242, Allium speculae
  2. ↑ Ownbey, Francis Marion, & Helen Caroline Aase. 1959. Allium speculae, a new species of the Allium canadense alliance from Alabama. Rhodora 61(723): 70–72.
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