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Wild Chive🌺
Allium macrostemon
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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
Sources & References
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