Allium anceps
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Allium anceps, known as twinleaf onion[1] and Kellogg's onion,[2] is a species of wild onion native to the western United States. It is widespread in Nevada, extending into adjacent parts of California, Idaho, and Oregon.[2] It grows in barren clay and rocky soils.[2][3][4]
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This perennial herb produces a flowering scape from a bulb up to Template:Convert long and wide. There are up to 5 bulbs, sometimes wrapped together in the brown or yellow-brown outer coat. There are two flat, smooth-edged, sickle-shaped leaves up to Template:Convert long. The scape is erect, up to Template:Convert tall, and flattened with winged edges. It bears an umbel of 15 to 35 flowers with two spathes at the base. The star-shaped flower is roughly Template:Convert wide with six greenish-veined pink tepals. The six stamens are tipped with yellow anthers bearing yellow pollen. Once the seeds mature the scape dies and breaks off, usually along with the leaves.[4][5]
The bulbs are edible and were a food source for the Northern Paiute, who roasted them and pressed them into cakes.[6]
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- ↑ Allium anceps. USDA PLANTS.
- ↑ a b c Allium anceps. NatureServe. 2012.
- ↑ Allium anceps. The Jepson eFlora 2013.
- ↑ a b Allium anceps. Flora of North America.
- ↑ Kellogg, Albert. 1863. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2: 109, f. 32.
- ↑ Allium anceps. Native American Ethnobotany. University of Michigan, Dearborn.