Allium acuminatum
Tapertip Onion

Family: Liliaceae (Lily Family)

Photo taken at Badger Mountain near Waterville, dry rocky slope

Flowers:

10-20 flowers per scape; outer tepals commonly purple-rose, lanceolate, 8-15 mm, becoming involute margined and keeled, tips spreading to recurved; inner tepals smaller than outer series

Bulb:

new bulb is formed inside of the bulb coat of the parent bulb, bulb coat maked with squarish reticulations

Leaves:

slightly channeled or V-shaped in cross section

Plant:

perennial; scape terete full length, 10-35 cm. Traditionally, bulbs were dug in the spring and eaten by the Thompson.

Habitat:

open areas, foothils and plains

Distribution of species:

Vancouver Island, Northwest Washington, and east side of Cascades in Washington and Oregon south to California and Arizona, east to south Wyoming and Western Colorado

Distribution of genus:

500 species: worldwide