Allium textile
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Prairie onion
| taxon = Allium textile
| parent = Allium subg. Amerallium
| image = Alliumtextile.jpg
| authority = A.Nelson & J.F.Macbr.{{WCSP|296789|Allium textile |access-date=2013-07-28}}
| status = G5
| status_system = TNC
|synonyms =
{{collapsible list|bullets = true
|title=Synonymy
|Allium angulosum Pursh 1813, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753
|Allium aridum Rydb.
|Allium geyeri var. textile (A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.) B. Boivin
|Allium reticulatum Fraser ex G. Don 1827, illegitimate homonym, not J. Presl & C. Presl 1817
|Allium reticulatum var. playanum M.E. Jones
|Maligia laxa Raf.
}}
|synonyms_ref = {{Tropicos |accessdate=6 September 2016}}{{ThePlantList |id=kew-296789 |taxon=Allium textile}}
}}
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Allium textile (prairie onion or textile onion) is a common species of wild onion found in the central part of North America.
Description
A. textile produces egg-shaped bulbs up to 2.5 cm long. There are no rhizomes. Scapes are round in cross-section, up to 40 cm tall. Flowers are bell-shaped or urn-shaped, about 6 mm in diameter; tepals white or pink with reddish-brown midribs; pollen and anthers yellow.{{citation needed|date=August 2019}}
Taxonomy
A. textile is placed within section Amerallium, subgenus Amerallium.{{sfn|Choi et al|2012}}{{sfn|Choi et al|2011}}
Distribution and habitat
The native range of A. textile extends across the Great Plains states from Oklahoma to Montana and Minnesota, plus the Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states from northern New Mexico to Washington, plus the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There is also a report of an isolated population in Indiana.{{EFloras|1|242101407|Allium textile |family=Liliaceae |first1=Dale W. |last=McNeal Jr. |first2=T. D. |last2=Jacobsen}}{{BONAP|ref|genus=Allium|species=textile}} Allium textile grows on dry, sunlit locations at elevations of 300–2400 m.{{cite journal |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10347368#page/557/mode/1up |last1=Nelson |first1=Aven |last2=Macbride |first2=James Francis |title=Western Plant Studies. II |date=1913 |journal=Botanical Gazette |volume=56 |issue=6 |page=470|doi=10.1086/331195 |s2cid=224844931 |doi-access=free }}{{cite book |last1=Presl |first1=Jan Svatopluk |last2=Presl |first2=Carl Bořivoj |date=1819 |title=Flora Čechica |url=https://archive.org/details/floraechicaindic00presuoft |page=[https://archive.org/details/floraechicaindic00presuoft/page/73 73]}}{{cite book |last=Don |first=George |chapter=A Monograph of the Genus Allium |chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180110#page/48 |orig-year=written 1826 |date=1832 |title=Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society |volume=6 |page=36|publisher=The Society }}{{cite encyclopedia |date=1977 |title=Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. |volume=6 |pages=1–584 |editor1-first=A.J. |editor1-last=Cronquist |editor2-first=A. H. |editor2-last=Holmgren |editor3-first=N. H. |editor3-last=Holmgren |editor4-first=J. L. |editor4-last=Reveal |editor5-first=P. K. |editor5-last=Holmgren |encyclopedia=Intermountain Flora |publisher=Hafner Publishing Company |place=New York}}{{cite book |editor=Great Plains Flora Association |date=1986 |title=Flora of the Great Plains |publisher=University Press of Kansas |place=Lawrence}}{{cite book |last=Moss |first=E. H. |date=1983 |title=Flora of Alberta |url=https://archive.org/details/floraofalbertama0000moss |url-access=registration |edition=2nd |publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802025081 }}
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite journal|last1=Choi|first1=Hyeok Jae|last2=Cota-Sánchez|first2=J. Hugo|title=A taxonomic revision of Allium (Alliaceae) in the Canadian prairie provinces|url=http://www.herbarium.usask.ca/research/articles/Choi_Cota-Sanchez_AlliumPrairieProv_Botany_2010.pdf|journal=Botany|date=September 2010|volume=88|issue=9|pages=787–809|doi=10.1139/B10-056|access-date=2017-01-28|archive-date=2015-09-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919163031/http://www.herbarium.usask.ca/research/articles/Choi_Cota-Sanchez_AlliumPrairieProv_Botany_2010.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Choi|first1=Hyeok Jae|last2=Giussani|first2=Liliana M.|last3=Jang|first3=Chang Gee|last4=Oh|first4=Byoung Un|last5=Cota-Sánchez|first5=J. Hugo|title=Systematics of disjunct northeastern Asian and northern North American Allium (Amaryllidaceae)|journal=Botany|date=June 2012|volume=90|issue=6|pages=491–508|doi=10.1139/b2012-031|ref={{harvid|Choi et al|2012}}|hdl=11336/68813|hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|last1= Choi|first1=Hyeok Jae|last2=Davis|first2=Arthur R.|last3=Cota-Sánchez|first3=J. Hugo|title=Comparative Floral Structure of Four New World Allium (Amaryllidaceae) Species|journal=Systematic Botany|volume=36|issue=4|pages=870–882|doi=10.1600/036364411x604895|ref={{harvid|Choi et al|2011}}|year=2011|s2cid=85573965}}
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External links
- {{PFAF|Allium textile}}
{{Allium|state=collapsed}}
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Category:Flora of the Northwestern United States
Category:Flora of the United States
Category:Flora of Western Canada
Category:Flora of the Great Basin
Category:Flora of the Great Plains (North America)
Category:Flora of the Rocky Mountains
Category:Taxa named by Aven Nelson
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