Allium maximowiczii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|name = Oriental chive

|genus = Allium | species = maximowiczii

|authority =Regel

|image=Allium maximowiczii.jpg

|synonyms=*Allium ledebourianum var. maximowiczii (Regel) Q.S. Sun

• Allium maximowiczii f. leucanthum (H.Hara) T.Shimizu
• Allium maximowiczii var. shibutsuense (Kitam.) Ohwi
• Allium maximowiczii var. yezomonticola (H.Hara) T.Shimizu
• Allium prostratum Maxim. 1859, illegitimate homonym not Trevir. 1822
• Allium schoenoprasum subsp. maximowiczii (Regel) Bondarenko ex Korovina
• Allium schoenoprasum var. bellum Kitam.
• Allium schoenoprasum f. leucanthum H.Hara
• Allium schoenoprasum var. orientale Regel
• Allium schoenoprasum var. shibutsuense Kitam.
• Allium schoenoprasum var. yezomonticola H.Hara

|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295998 The Plant List]

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Allium maximowiczii, English common name oriental chive,{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |title=English Names for Korean Native Plants |last=Korea National Arboretum |publisher=National Arboretum |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |oclc=921358336 |location=Pocheon |pages=347 |access-date=27 November 2016 |via=Korea Forest Service |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf |archivedate=25 May 2017 }} is an Asian plant species native to Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, Japan, Korea and northeastern China (Heilongjiang, Jilin and Inner Mongolia).[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=240001036 Flora of China v 24 p 195 马葱 ma cong Allium maximowiczii][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295998 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]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.Choi, H.J. & Oh, B.U. (2011). A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 153-211.

Allium maximowiczii produces one or two bulbs. Scape is up to 70 cm tall. Leaves are tubular, shorter than the scape. Umbels are densely packed with large numbers of pink or red flowers.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/1311720 Regel, Eduard August von. 1875. Trudy Imperatorskago S.-Peterburgskago Botaničeskago Sada 3(2): 153.]