Allium cuthbertii

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| name =Striped garlic

| taxon = Allium cuthbertii

| parent = Allium subg. Amerallium

| image = Stripped_garlic.jpg

| authority = Small

|synonyms=Allium sanbornii var. jepsonii Ownbey & Aase ex Traub

| status = G4

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref = {{Cite web|date=2022-06-22 |url= https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.134129|access-date=22 Jun 2022 |website=NatureServe Explorer Allium cuthbertii|title = NatureServe Explorer - Allium cuthbertii |publisher=NatureServe}}

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Allium cuthbertii, common name striped garlic, is a plant species native to the southeastern United States. It occurs at elevations less than 300 m in Alabama, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and northeastern Florida.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101349 Flora of North America v 26 p 241,Allium cuthbertii ][http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Allium%20cuthbertii.png BONAP (Biota of North America Program) floristic synthesis, Allium cuthbertii] It is a perennial herb.{{Cite web|title=Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin|url=https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=ALCU|access-date=|website=www.wildflower.org}}

Allium cuthbertii produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 2 cm long. Scapes are round, triangular or square in cross-section, up to 40 cm tall. Flowers are about 8 mm across, white, pink or purple; anthers and pollen yellow.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/377151#page/274/mode/1up Small, John Kunkel. 1903. Flora of the Southeastern United States 264, 1328.]Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill