Allium ramosum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Allium ramosum 01.jpg

|status = LC

|status_system = IUCN3.1

|status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rhodes, L. |author2=Maxted, N. |date=2016 |title=Allium ramosum |volume=2016 |page=e.T172189A47600679 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T172189A47600679.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

|taxon = Allium ramosum

|parent = Allium subg. Butomissa

|authority =L. 1753 not Georgi 1779 nor Jacq. 1781

|synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets = true

|title=Synonymy

|Aglitheis tatarica (L.f.) Raf.

|Allium beckerianum Regel

|Allium diaphanum Janka

|Allium lancipetalum Y.P.Hsu

|Allium odorum L.

|Allium potaninii Regel

|Allium ramosum Georgi 1779, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 nor Jacq. 1781

|Allium senescens Miq.

|Allium tataricum L.f. 1782

|Allium tataricum Dryand. 1811, illegitimate homonym not L. 1782

|Allium umbellatum Haller f. ex Steud.

|Allium weichanicum Palib.

|Butomissa tatarica (L.f.) Salisb., not validly published

|Moly odorum (L.) Moench

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|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296376 The Plant List][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=296376 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

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Allium ramosum, called fragrant-flowered garlic[http://www.sunnygardens.com/garden_plants/allium/allium_2080.php Sunny Gardens, Allium ramosum, Fragrant-Flowered Garlic] or Chinese chives[http://allthingsplants.com/plants/photo/88442/ All Things Plant, Photo of the bloom of Chinese Chives (Allium ramosum) posted by zuzu]{{PFAF|Allium ramosum}} is a northern Asian species of wild onion native to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang).Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.Sheremetova, S.A., Ebel, A.L. & Buko, T.E. (2011). Supplement to the flora of Kemerovo region since 2001 till 2010. Turczaninowia 14(1): 65-74.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.Veklich,T.N. (2012). Novelties of vascular flora of the Zeyskiy reserve (Amur region). Turczaninowia 15(2): 51-54. The species is also naturalized in a few places in eastern Europe.[https://www.academia.edu/4748121/Allium_ramosum_L._Amaryllidaceae_a_neglected_alien_in_the_European_flora_and_its_oldest_record_from_Poland Seregin, A. & Korniak, T. (2013). Allium ramosum L. (Amaryllidaceae), a neglected alien in the European flora and its oldest record from Poland. Phytotaxa 134: 61-64.] In its native range, it grows at elevations of 500–2100 m.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027524 Flora of China v 24 p 180 野韭 ye jiu Allium ramosum]

Allium ramosum has clusters of narrow bulbs. Scapes are up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are linear, keeled, shorter than the scape. Umbels have many flowers crowded together. Tepals are white or pale red with a red midvein.Y.P.Hsu. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Yangling 7(4): 259.[http://www.botanicus.org/page/358315 Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.]