''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''
** ''Allium ochotense''
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with a range extending from
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to
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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