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Allium strictum
Erect chive is a hardy Eurasian wild onion with rose-pink flower heads, grown from small bulbs on stony, well-drained ground. Its key need is sharp drainage and full sun.
Allium strictum is a Eurasian species of wild onion. Its native range extends from France to Yakutia.
Allium strictum produces one or two bulbs, each up to 8 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are flat, narrow, shorter than the scape, about 4 mm wide. Umbels are spherical with many flowers crowded together. Tepals are rose-pink or reddish-purple with a dark purple midvein. It grows on stony slopes and cliffs.
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
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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.
