The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Allium spurium
Northern Aaging Chive (Allium spurium) is a small wild onion from eastern Russia, Mongolia and northern China, grown from a bulb and spreading by underground rhizomes. It needs cold winters and full sun with good drainage to thrive.
Allium spurium is a species of wild onion native to eastern Russia (Amur Oblast, Buryatiya, Yakutia, Zabaykalsky Krai), Mongolia and China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia).
Allium spurium produces 1 or 2 bulbs, each up to 15 mm in diameter. Plant spreads by means of underground rhizomes. Leaves are flat, narrowly linear, about 3 mm wide. Scapes are up to 40 cm tall. Umbel is hemispheric, with many pink or lilac flowers.
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 spurium 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.
