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Allium tribracteatum
Also called Three Bracted Onion
Threebract onion is a small wild onion (Allium tribracteatum) from the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, growing from a small bulb and flowering in spring. It needs sun, good drainage and a dry summer rest.
Allium tribracteatum, known by the common name Threebract onion, is a species of wild onion found in California.
The plant is endemic to California, where it is known only from the slopes of the Sierra Nevada in Tuolumne and Calaveras Counties.
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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.
