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Purple Flowered Onion

Allium atropurpureum

Purple Flowered Onion
Photo: JLPC, CC BY-SA 3.0

Purple flowered onion is a bulbous ornamental allium with dense, dark purple flower heads on tall stems in late spring and early summer. It grows best in full sun and well-drained soil, and it is hardy in temperate gardens.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water during active growth in spring, then keep it fairly dry once the foliage dies back in summer.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile garden soil or gritty loam; avoid waterlogged ground.
Temperature
Hardy in temperate climates; tolerates winter cold well below 0 °C when dormant.
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Hungary to NW. Türkiye
Climate
temperate

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Allium atropurpureum is a plant species native to Hungary, the Balkans, and Turkey. It is widely grown as an ornamental for its rich, deep purple flowers.

Other Allium plants

South Idaho onion · Abrams' allium · Allium aciphyllum · Tapertip onion · Allium aeginiense · Allium aflatunense · Allium agrigentinum · Allium alabasicum · Allium albotunicatum · Allium alibile · Altai Onion · Allium altissimum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium atropurpureum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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