Allium rotundum, common name round-headed leek or purple-flowered garlic, is a Eurasian and North African species of wild onion. Its native range extends from Spain and Morocco to Iran and European Russia.[2] It is sparingly naturalized in parts of the United States (Michigan and Iowa).[3] The species grows in disturbed habitats such as roadsides, cultivated fields, etc.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
round-headed leek
purple-flowered garlic |
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| Allium rotundum |
Scientific classification |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. rotundum |
| Binomial name |
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Allium rotundum
L. 1762 not All. 1785 nor Wimm. & Grab. 1824 |
| Synonyms[1] |
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- Allium ampeloprasum Thunb. 1794, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
- Allium ampeloprasum var. paterfamilias (Boiss.) Nyman
- Allium ampeloprasum subsp. paterfamilias (Boiss.) K.Richt.
- Allium baumannianum K.Koch
- Allium cambiasii De Not.
- Allium cilicicum Boiss.
- Allium descendens Pall. ex Schult. & Schult.f. 1830, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
- Allium erectum G.Don
- Allium gracilescens Sommier & Levier
- Allium jajlae Vved.
- Allium jajlae var. baidarense Seregin
- Allium multiflorum Kunth 1843, illegitimate homonym not Desf. 1798
- Allium paterfamilias Boiss.
- Allium porphyroprasum Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.
- Allium preslianum Schult. & Schult.f.
- Allium rotundifolium Lumn. ex Steud.
- Allium rubellum C.Presl
- Allium rubicundum Niven ex G.Don
- Allium scariosum Jan ex Schult. & Schult.f.
- Allium scorodoprasum subsp. jajlae (Vved.) Stearn
- Allium scorodoprasum subsp. rotundum (L.) Stearn
- Allium scorodoprasum subsp. waldsteinii (G.Don) Stearn
- Allium tmoleum O.Schwarz
- Allium waldsteinianum Schult. & Schult.f.
- Allium waldsteinii G.Don
- Porrum polyanthum Fourr.
- Porrum rotundum (L.) Rchb.
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Allium rotundum produces large clumps of as many as 50 egg-shaped bulbs, each up to 1.5 cm long. Leaves are up to 40 cm long. Scapes are up to 90 cm tall. Umbels look round from a distance, and can contain as many as 200 flowers. Flowers are bell-shaped, up to 7 mm across; tepals purple, sometimes with white margins; anthers yellow or purple; pollen yellow or white.