Key to Alliaceae

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1. Perianth parts ± free; onion odor present; inflorescence 3–many-flowered, flowers rarely partly or completely replaced by 

bulblets 

1. Small bulb generally produced at the base of a bulb. 2. Any small, bulb-like structure that propagates a plant, often in a leaf or bract axil.

..... ALLIUM

1' Perianth parts fused in lower 1/3 or 1/2; onion odor present or 0; inflorescence 1–several-flowered, flowers not replaced by bulblets

2. Onion odor present; inflorescence 1-flowered; perianth parts fused in lower 1/2 ..... IPHEION

2' Onion odor 0; inflorescence several-flowered; perianth parts fused in lower 1/3 ..... NOTHOSCORDUM

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