Allium brandegeei

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| taxon = Allium brandegeei

| image = Brandegee's onion (Allium brandegeei syn. Allium brandegei).jpg

| authority =S.Wats.

|synonyms=*Allium diehlii (M.E. Jones) M.E. Jones

• Allium minimum M.E. Jones
• Allium tribracteatum var. diehlii M.E. Jones

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/18401636?tab=synonyms Tropicos][http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295172 The Plant List]

| status = G4

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref = {{Cite web|date=2022-06-22 |url= https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.147766|access-date=22 Jun 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer Allium brandegeei|title = NatureServe Explorer - Allium brandegeei |publisher=NatureServe}}

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Allium brandegeei is a plant species native to the western United States. It has been reported from western Colorado, Utah, Idaho, eastern Oregon, Park County, Montana and Elko County, Nevada.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101337 Flora of North America v 26 p 266, Allium brandegeei][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Allium%20brandegeei.png BONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium brandegeei]

Allium brandegeei grows in sandy, rocky soil at elevations of {{convert|1200|-|3300|m}}. One plant produces 1-5 round to egg-shaped bulbs up to {{convert|1.5|cm}} in diameter. Flowers are bell-shaped, up {{convert|8|mm}} long; tepals white with green or purple midvein.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8781086#page/476/mode/1up Watson, Sereno. 1882. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 17: 380.].Cronquist, A.J., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren & Reveal. 1977. Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. 6: 1–584. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1969. Vascular Cryptogams, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons. 1: 1–914. In C. L. Hitchcock Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.