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Allium schoenoprasoides is a small wild onion from high mountain grasslands of Central Asia, with a single egg-shaped bulb and dense purple flower heads. It is grown mainly as a hardy, cold-tolerant ornamental or alpine bulb in gardens with cold winters.
Allium schoenoprasoides is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It can be found at elevations of 2700–3000 m.
Allium schoenoprasoides produces one egg-shaped bulb up to 15 mm in diameter. Scape is short, rarely more than 20 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape, 2–3 mm wide. Umbels are spherical, densely packed with many purple flowers crowded together.
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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.
