Allium crenulatum
Olympic Onion

Family: Liliaceae (Lily Family)

Photo taken in the Wenatchee Mountains, dry rocky slope

Flowers:

tepals pink with a deeper pink midvein, 6-12 mm, lanceolate, acute

Leaves:

thick and flat, curved, and deciduous later in the year

Plant:

perennial; scape flattened and generally more of less wing margined. Traditionally bulbs were cooked and eaten or dried for future use by the Okanagan-Colville, Okanagan, Thompson, and Shuswap.

Habitat:

gravelly soils

Distribution of species:

Vancouver Island to south west Oregon, west Cascades, also in Olympic Mountains, Wenatchee Mountains, and Oregon Cascades

Distribution of genus:

500 species: worldwide