''Allium obliquum'', common name lop-sided onion or twisted-leaf onion, is a
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* any uncultivated species in the genus ''Allium'', especially:
**''Allium bisceptrum''
** ''Allium canadense''
** ''Allium tricoccum''
** ''Allium validum''
** ''Allium vineale''
* ''Asphodelus tenuifolius''
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[ It is also widely cultivated elsewhere as an ornamental.
''Allium obliquum'' produces an egg-shaped bulb up to 3 cm long. Scape is up to 100 cm tall, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, up to 20 mm across. Umbels are spherical, with many yellow flowers crowded together.Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.]
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obliquum
Onions
Flora of Eastern Europe
Flora of temperate Asia
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus