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Allium tulipifolium is a small wild onion from Central Asia with white, tulip-like flowers, grown as a hardy bulb in rock gardens. It needs a sunny, well-drained spot and a dry summer rest.
Allium tulipifolium is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and Altay Krai. It is found at elevations of 600–1000 m.
Allium tulipifolium has round to egg-shaped bulbs up to 20 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 40 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, waxy, up to 2 cm across, much shorter than scape, with a pink or dark green margin. Umbel has many flowers, the tepals white with dark green or purple mid-veins.
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 tulipifolium 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.
