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Allium delicatulum is a small bulbous onion relative from Eurasian grasslands and deserts, grown mainly by enthusiasts of wild alliums. Its key to success is a sunny, very well drained site and a dry summer rest.
Allium delicatulum is a Eurasian species of onion native to European Russia, Western Siberia, Xinjiang, and Kazakhstan. It grows in open grasslands and deserts.
Allium delicatulum produces round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 15 mm across. Scapes are up to 25 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are round and hollow, shorter than the scapes. Flowers have white or pink tepals with dark red midveins.
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 delicatulum 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.
