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Allium kokanicum

Allium kokanicum
Photo: Andrey Sychev, CC BY-SA 4.0

Allium kokanicum is a small bulb-forming perennial onion from the mountains of Central Asia, growing up to about 20 cm tall with pale red to purple flowers. It needs cold winters and well-drained soil to thrive in the garden.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during active growth in spring, then keep dry while dormant in summer.
Soil
Fast-draining, gritty or sandy loam; avoid heavy wet clay.
Temperature
Hardy to about -20 °C; needs a cold winter dormancy.
How easy
Easy
Native range
C. Asia to NE. Aghanistan and W. Himalaya
Climate
temperate

About

Allium kokanicum is an Old World bulb geophyte, native to mountains parts of Central Asia. It is a bulb-forming perennial up to 20 cm tall with pale red to pale purple flowers.

Where it grows

Allium kokanicum is found growing wild from northern Pakistan and northeast Afghanistan, throughout Pamirian Tajikistan, the Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and Xinjiang, to Altaic eastern Kazakhstan.

Other Allium plants

South Idaho onion · Allium abbasii · Abrams' allium · Allium acidoides · Allium aciphyllum · Tapertip onion · Allium acutiflorum · Allium aeginiense · Allium aflatunense · Allium agrigentinum · Allium akaka · Allium akirense

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium kokanicum 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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