Allium senescens

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| name = German garlic

| image = Allium_senescens.jpg

| taxon = Allium senescens

| parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = Duarte, M.C., Holubec, V., Uzundzhalieva, K., Vögel, R., Vörösváry, G. & Maslovky, O. (2011). Allium senescens. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T172240A6855435. Downloaded on 05 January 2019.

| authority = L. Allium senescens was first described and published in Species Plantarum 1: 299-300. 1753. {{ cite web |url=http://tropicos.org/Name/18400100 |title=Name - Allium senescens L. |work=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |accessdate=May 22, 2011}}

| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies

| subdivision =

  • A. s. subsp. montanum
  • A. s. subsp. senescens

: List source:  {{GRIN | accessdate=May 22, 2011}}

}}

Allium senescens, commonly called aging 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 |publisher=Korea National Arboretum |year=2015 |isbn=978-89-97450-98-5 |location=Pocheon |pages=348 |access-date=17 December 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 }} German garlic, or broadleaf chives, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).

Description

A bulbous herbaceous perennial, it produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows {{convert|8|-|40|in|cm}} in height. The foliage is thin and straplike.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies have been named:

Distribution

Allium senescens is native to northern Europe and Asia, from Siberia to Korea. It has been introduced and naturalized in some parts of Europe, including the Czech Republic and former Yugoslavia.{{cite web |title=Allium senescens|work=World Checklist of Selected Plant Families |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |url=http://wcsp.science.kew.org/namedetail.do?name_id=296571 |accessdate=2017-10-24}}

Uses

Allium senescens is grown for its ornamental qualities, and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to A. cepa (the common onion). In the UK it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.{{cite web | url= https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/867/i-Allium-senescens-i/Details

| title = RHS Plantfinder - Allium senescens

| publisher=Royal Horticultural Society | date=2014 | accessdate=5 January 2018}}

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