Allium nutans

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Allium nutans

| parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

| image = Allium nutans kz1.jpg

| image_alt = "Allium nutans" at the New York Botanical Garden

| image_caption = Allium nutans at the New York Botanical Garden

|authority = L. 1753 not Schult. & Schult.f. 1830

|synonyms =

• Allium tataricum Schult. & Schult.f.
• Allium undulatum Schousb. ex Trev.
• Porrum nutans (L.) Raf.

|synonyms_ref = {{WCSP |296122 |accessdate=2019-05-07}}

}}

Allium nutans, English common name Siberian chives or blue chives, is a species of onion native to European Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Asiatic Russia (Altay Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, Western Siberia, Amur Oblast). It grows in wet meadows and other damp locations.{{eFloras|2|200027507|Allium nutans |last1=Xu |first1=Jiemei |first2=Rudolf V. |last2=Kamelin |volume=24}}{{PFAF}}По данным книги «Флора СССР» (см. раздел Литература).

Allium nutans has one or two bulbs up to {{cvt|1.5|to|2.0|cm|frac=8}} in diameter. Scapes are winged and 2-angled, {{cvt|30|to|60|cm|0}} tall. Leaves are flat, tapering at both ends, {{cvt|6|to|10|mm}} wide at the widest spot (rarely to {{cvt|15|mm|disp=or}}), about half as long as the scapes. Umbels are spherical, with many pink to pale purple flowers.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/358318 Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 299.][http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100213950 photo of specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden][http://www.tropicos.org/Image/28187 line drawing of Allium nutans, Flora of China Illustrations vol. 24, fig. 201, 1-4 ]