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Allium falcifolium
Also called Sickle Leaf Onion
Scytheleaf onion (Allium falcifolium) is a North American wild onion from northern California and southern Oregon, usually found in heavy, rocky soils such as serpentine. It is a small bulbous geophyte grown mainly as a native rock garden or wildflower plant, and it needs a dry summer rest and good drainage to thrive.
Allium falcifolium is a North American species of wild onion known by the common name scytheleaf onion or coast flatstem onion. It is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it grows in heavy, rocky soils, especially serpentine soils.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium falcifolium 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.
