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| Conservation status | |
 Apparently Secure (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Subgenus: | A. subg. Amerallium |
| Species: | A. campanulatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium campanulatum S.Wats. | |
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Allium campanulatum is a species of wild onion known by the common name dusky onion or Sierra onion. This is a flowering plant native to the western United States from southeastern Washington and northern Oregon to southern California, and western Nevada. The dusky onion grows in foothills and mountains, especially in dry areas, such as chaparral habitats.
Description
The dusky onion, Allium campanulatum, grows from a gray-brown bulb one to two centimeters wide which may extend tiny rhizomes and produce small daughter bulblets. It rises on a stout stem and has usually two long, thin leaves that wither before the flowers bloom. On top of the stem is an inflorescence of 10 to 50 flowers. Each flower is half a centimeter to one centimeter wide and is pink, purple, or less often white, and each tepal has a dark-colored base. The tepals are variable in shape, from narrow and very pointy to spade-shaped. Anthers are purple; pollen yellow. Flowers bloom May to August.
See also
References
- "NatureServe Explorer - Allium campanulatum". NatureServe Explorer Allium campanulatum. NatureServe. 2022-05-30. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- Tropicos
- The Plant List
- Jepson Manual Treatment — Allium campanulatum
- USDA Plants Profile: Allium campanulatum (dusky onion)
- Flora of North America v 26 p 256
- Allium campanulatum — U.C. Photo gallery
- Watson, Sereno. 1879. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 14: 231.
- "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". www.wildflower.org.
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- NatureServe apparently secure species
- Allium
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Washington (state)
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
- Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
- Natural history of the Central Valley (California)
- Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
- Natural history of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Onions
- Plants described in 1879
- Taxa named by Sereno Watson
- Allium stubs