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Allium tuolumnense
Rawhide Hill onion is a rare wild onion endemic to a small area of Tuolumne County, California, growing from a small bulb on serpentine soils. Grow it in very well-drained, mineral-rich soil in full sun, and keep it dry in summer as it would be in its native habitat.
Allium tuolumnense is a rare species of wild onion, known by the common name Rawhide Hill onion.
It is endemic to Tuolumne County, California, where it is known only from a small section of the Sierra Nevada foothills at Rawhide Hill and the Red Hills. It is a plant of serpentine soils.
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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.
