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A small wild onion (Allium) from Central Asia, grown mainly by alpine and rock garden enthusiasts for its short, compact habit and few red to violet flowers. It needs a sunny spot and very well-drained soil, and it is hardy outdoors in cold climates.
Allium weschniakowii is an Asian species of wild onion native to Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Allium weschniakowii has a cluster of narrow bulbs rarely more than 5 mm in diameter. Scape is rather short of the genus, only up to 16 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel has only a few red to violet 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 weschniakowii 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.
