Wild Chive

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Wild Chive🌺

Allium macrostemon

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ヒガンバナ科HerbPerennialEdibleSpringWhite flowersRoadsides

A perennial found along roadsides and in grasslands. It has a small underground bulb, and both the leaves and bulb are edible. When young leaves are broken in spring, they release an onion-like fragrance. White florets and bulbils appear at the tip of the flower stalk.

Identification Points

  • Leaves are linear like green onion or garlic chives, solid in cross-section (round)
  • Releases an onion- or garlic-like smell when broken
  • White to pale purple florets in an umbel from spring to summer
  • Bulbils (propagules) often develop among the flowers

Habitat

Roadsides, grasslands, field margins, and embankments

Season

April–June (flowers)

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Leaf arrangement

Alternate

Leaf type

Simple

Venation

Parallel

Leaf margin

Entire

Leaf shape

Linear

Growth form

Herb

Petal count

3 petals

Petal fusion

Free

Flower color

White

Flowering season

Spring

Habitat

Roadside

Leaf dissection

Undivided

Flower symmetry

Actinomorphic

Plant sex

Hermaphrodite

Aromatic

None

Phylogenetic Positionヒガンバナ科

Phylogenetic Position

Angiosperms > Monocots > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae

Divergence Era

Late Cretaceous to Paleogene

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Sources & References

📖Wikipedia 日本語版
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