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Jeweled onion

Allium serra

Jeweled onion
Photo: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
W. California
Climate
temperate

About

Allium serra is a California species of wild onion known by several common names, including jeweled onion, pom-pon onion, and serrated onion.

It favors hard soils with rock and clay, including serpentine soil. It is found in the Coast Ranges of central and northern California, from Merced County to Humboldt County.

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 serra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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