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Allium karataviense
Also called Turkistan Onion
Turkestan onion is a bulb-forming ornamental onion from Central Asia, grown for its broad gray-green leaves and round clusters of lilac to pink flowers in spring. It is easy to grow in full sun and well-drained soil, and it is a species, not a genus.
Allium karataviense is a species of onion in the Amaryllis family. It is commonly known as Turkistan onion or ornamental onion.
It is native to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and is cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental plant. It has been selected for the Great Plant Picks list of outstanding plants for the maritime Pacific Northwest. The Latin specific epithet karataviense means of the Karatau Mountains in Kazakhstan, in reference to the plant's native range.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium karataviense 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.
