Common Name: ONION or GARLIC FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb; bulb 1 or on rhizomes, reforming each year; bulblets at bulb bases or on rhizomes; outer bulb coat brown, red-brown, yellow-brown, or gray; inner coats generally white (pink, red, or yellow); onion odor, taste present (except Nothoscordum). Stem: scapose, cylindric, sometimes flat or triangular. Leaf: basal, sheathing stem, linear [or not], cylindric, channeled or flat, generally +- withering from tip by flowering. Inflorescence: umbel (1-flowered in Ipheion), bracts generally 2, splitting and appearing 2+ or not, +- fused, enclosing flower buds, scarious. Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, +- free to fused in lower 1/3--1/2; stamens 6, fused to perianth, filaments widened at base, anthers attached at middle; ovary superior, 3-lobed, chambers 3, ovules 2+ per chamber, style 1, stigma entire or +- 3-lobed. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal. Seed: black, sculpture net-like, smooth, or granular. Genera In Family: 13 genera, 750--800 species: worldwide. Note: Many cultivated for food, ornamental. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: ONION, GARLIC Habit: Outer bulb coat generally brown to gray, inner generally white. Stem: scapose, cylindric, triangular in ×-section, or flat. Leaf: basal, 1--5[12] per stem, linear, cylindric, channeled, or flat, generally withering from tip before flower. Inflorescence: umbel, flowers 3--many, rarely all or in part replaced by bulblets; bracts generally 2--4, obvious, +- fused, scarious. Flower: perianth parts +- free, generally with darker or contrasting midvein, outer generally wider; filaments fused into a ring; ovary with 0, 3, or 6 crests, ovules generally 2 per chamber. Seed: obovoid, generally unappendaged. Etymology: (Latin: garlic) Note: Replanting bulbs after study essential for survival of pl; shape, arrangement of cells of outer bulb coat (outer bulb coat sculpture) generally important in identification, generally determined only with magnification; color of outer bulb coat may be masked by substrate; stem lengths from top of bulb to base of inflorescence, not from substrate surface. eFlora Treatment Author: Dale W. McNeal & Julie A. Kierstead Reference: McNeal & Jacobsen 2002 FNANM 26:224--276; Wheeler et al. 2013 Amer J Bot 100:701--711
Allium cratericola Eastw.
NATIVE Habit: Bulb 15--25 mm, ovoid; outer coat sculpture 0 or cells +- square, in 2--3 rows basally. Stem: 3--10 cm. Leaf: 1--2, 1.5--4 × stem, +- flat to widely channeled. Inflorescence: flowers 20--30; pedicels 5--18 mm. Flower: 7--14 mm; perianth parts +- oblong to elliptic, entire, +- pink; ovary crests 3, minute, central. Chromosomes: n=7,14. Ecology: Open, serpentine, volcanic, or granitic places; Elevation: 300--1800 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, NCoR, n&c SNF, s SNH, Teh, se SnFrB, SCoRI, WTR, SnJt. Flowering Time: Mar--Jun Note: Most northern California plants have 1 leaf; southern California plants and 2 populations in Mariposa Co. have 2 leaves; some NCoR populations mixed. Synonyms: Allium tribracteatum Torr. var. jacintense Munz Jepson eFlora Author: Dale W. McNeal & Julie A. Kierstead Reference: McNeal & Jacobsen 2002 FNANM 26:224--276; Wheeler et al. 2013 Amer J Bot 100:701--711 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Allium cepa Next taxon: Allium crispum
Citation for this treatment: Dale W. McNeal & Julie A. Kierstead 2023, Allium cratericola, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 12, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=12550, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Allium cratericola:
KR, NCoR, n&c SNF, s SNH, Teh, se SnFrB, SCoRI, WTR, SnJt.
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