Allium nutans
TaxonAllium nutans
ParentAllium subg. Rhizirideum
AuthorityL. 1753 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830
Synonyms

Allium nutans, English common name Siberian chives or blue chives, is a species of onion native to European Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Asiatic Russia (Altay Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, Western Siberia, Amur Oblast). It grows in wet meadows and other damp locations.[1][2][3]

Allium nutans has one or two bulbs up to 1.5 to 2.0 cm (0.59 to 0.79 in) in diameter. Scapes are winged and 2-angled, 30 to 60 cm (12 to 24 in) tall. Leaves are flat, tapering at both ends, 6 to 10 mm (0.24 to 0.39 in) wide at the widest spot (rarely to 15 millimetres or 0.59 inches), about half as long as the scapes. Umbels are spherical, with many pink to pale purple flowers.[1][4][5][6]

References

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  3. ^ По данным книги «Флора СССР» (см. раздел Литература).
  4. ^ Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 299.
  5. ^ photo of specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden
  6. ^ line drawing of Allium nutans, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 201, 1-4