Allium strictum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| taxon = Allium strictum

| parent = Allium subg. Reticulatobulbosa

| authority = Schrad.

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|Allium angustum G.Don

|Allium lineare Willd. ex Kunth 1843, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753

|Allium lineare var. strictum (Schrad.) Trevir.

|Allium lineare var. strictum Krylov

|Allium microcephalum Tausch

|Allium reticulatum J.Presl & C.Presl

|Allium suaveolens Gaudin 1828, illegitimate homonym not Jacq. 1789

|Allium volhynicum Besser

|Porrum strictum (Schrad.) Rchb.

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| synonyms_ref = [http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-296690 The Plant List]

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Allium strictum is a Eurasian species of wild onion. Its native range extends from France to Yakutia.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027537 Flora of China v 24 p 181 辉韭 hui jiu Allium strictum][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+strictum Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio sottile , Allium strictum][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296690 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Pavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.Petrova, N.A. (ed.) (1967). Flora Kirgizskoi SSR dopolnenie 1: 1-149. Frunze : Izd-vo KirgizFAN SSSR.Kharkevich, S.S. (ed.) (1987). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 2: 1-448. Nauka, Leningrad.Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic. Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.

Allium strictum produces one or two bulbs, each up to 8 mm in diameter. Scape is up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are flat, narrow, shorter than the scape, about 4 mm wide. Umbels are spherical with many flowers crowded together. Tepals are rose-pink or reddish-purple with a dark purple midvein.Schrader, Heinrich Adolph. 1809. Hortus Gottingensis seu plantae novae et rariores horti regii botanici 7, plate 1.Czerepanov, S. K. 1981. Sosud. Rast. SSSR 509 pages. Nauka, Leningradskoe Otd-nie, Leningrad. It grows on stony slopes and cliffs.