Allium ledebourianum

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|genus = Allium

| species = ledebourianum

|authority =Schultes & J.H. Schultes

|synonyms=*Allium uliginosum Ledeb. 1830, illegitimate homonym of Allium uliginosum G. Don 1827

• Allium ledebourianum var. purpurascens Regel

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Allium ledebourianum is an Asian species of wild onion native to central and northeastern Asia: Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (Altay Krai, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Sakhalin), and China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295877 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families] It occurs at elevations up to 1800 m elevation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027496|title=Allium ledebourianum in Flora of China @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|accessdate=27 August 2019}}Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.

Allium ledebourianum has a cluster of narrow bulbs up to 20 mm across. Scapes are up to 100 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbel is hemispheric, densely crowded with many purple flowers; tepals pale purple with darker purple midvein.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=48798|title=Image|website=www.tropicos.org|accessdate=27 August 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Image/17821|title=Tropicos | Image -|website=www.tropicos.org|accessdate=27 August 2019}}[http://www.botanicus.org/page/736256 Roemer & Schultes. 1830. Systema Vegetabilium 7(2): 1029].Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von. 1830. Flora Altaica 2: 16.

;Formerly included

Allium ledebourianum var. maximowiczii (Regel) Q.S.Sun, now called Allium maximowiczii Regel