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Allium senescens
Also called German garlic, Broadleaf Chives
A hardy bulbous perennial onion grown mainly for its late summer pink umbel flowers and thin, straplike foliage. It is easy to grow in full sun and well-drained soil.
Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, German garlic, broadleaf chives, or dumebuchu, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).
Allium senescens is native to northern Europe and Asia, from Siberia to Korea. It has been introduced and naturalized in some parts of Europe, including the Czech Republic and former Yugoslavia.
Allium senescens is grown for its ornamental qualities, and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to A. cepa (the common onion). In the UK it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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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.
