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Allium neriniflorum

Allium neriniflorum is a small wild onion from Mongolia, Siberia and northern China that grows from a single small bulb and bears a few red or white flowers on a slender stalk. It needs full sun, well-drained soil and a cold winter rest, like most hardy bulbs.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Full sun
Water
Water moderately during active growth in spring, then keep nearly dry once the foliage dies back in summer.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty soil, as on its native dunes and hillsides.
Temperature
Hardy to well below freezing; needs a cold winter dormancy, roughly -20 °C or colder tolerated.
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
S. Siberia to N. China
Climate
temperate

About

Allium neriniflorum is a species of wild onion in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Mongolia, the Zabaykalsky Krai region of Siberia, and northern China (Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning). It grows on coastal sand dunes, wet meadows, hillsides, etc., at elevations up to 2000 m.

Allium neriniflorum produces one round or egg-shaped bulb up to 2 cm (2⁄3 in) in diameter. Scape is up to 50 cm (20 in) tall. Leaves are round in cross-section, hollow, about the same length as the scape. Umbels contain only a few flowers, usually red or red-violet but sometimes white.

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 neriniflorum 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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