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Allium sabulosum is a wild Eurasian onion with a single egg-shaped bulb, native to sandy steppe and semi-desert areas from European Russia through Central Asia to Xinjiang and Iran. It is a bulbous geophyte best grown in full sun with well-drained, sandy soil and dry conditions after its growing season.
Allium sabulosum is a Eurasian species of wild onion native to European Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang.
Allium sabulosum produces one egg-shaped bulb up to 20 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is densely packed with many green flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium sabulosum 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.
