Allium flavum

Allium flavum, the small yellow onion[4] or yellow-flowered garlic,[5] is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium. A bulbous herbaceous perennial, it is native to the lands surrounding the Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas, from France + Morocco to Iran + Kazakhstan.[6][7]

Allium flavum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. flavum
Binomial name
Allium flavum
Synonyms[2][3]
List
  • Allium montanum Rchb. 1848, illegitimate homonym not F.W. Schmidt 1794
  • Allium nitschmannii Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Allium pallens Rchb. 1848, illegitimate homonym not L. 1762
  • Allium paniculatum All. 1785, illegitimate homonym not L. 1759
  • Allium ruthenicum Steud.
  • Allium valdense Nyman
  • Allium valdensium Reut.
  • Allium webbii Clementi
  • Cepa flava (L.) Moench
  • Codonoprasum flavum (L.) Rchb.
  • Codonoprasum flexum Rchb.
  • Codonoprasum pallens Rchb.
  • Kalabotis flavum (L.) Raf.
  • Allium tauricum (Besser ex Rchb.) Grossh.
  • Allium aristatum Candargy
  • Allium paczoskianum Tuzson
  • Allium callistemon Webb ex Regel
  • Allium sphaeropodum Klokov
  • Allium villosiusculum Seregin
  • Allium pseudopulchellum Omelczuk
  • Allium fontanesii J.Gay
  • Allium amphipulchellum Zahar.

Description

Allium flavum produces one bulb, and a scape up to 40 cm tall. The Umbel contains bright yellow, bell shaped flowers with a pleasing scent.[8][9][10][11][12] The Latin species epithet flavum means "yellow", referring to its flower colour.[13] It flowers between June and July and is hardy to USDA zones 4 to 8.[4]

In cultivation in the UK, Allium flavum has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.[5]

Varieties and subspecies

Numerous names have been proposed but only the following are accepted by the World Checklist[3]

References
  1. Holubec, V.; Uzundzhalieva, K.; Vörösváry, G.; Donnini, D.; Bulińska, Z.; Strajeru, S.; Eliáš, P. (2011). "Allium flavum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011: e.T172140A6835455. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. The Plant List
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Ellen Spector Platt Garlic, Onion, and Other Alliums, p. 150, at Google Books
  5. "RHS Plantfinder - Allium flavum". Royal Horticultural Society. 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  6. Altervista Flora Italiana, Allium flavum
  7. Dave's Garden Plant Files, Allium flavum, Fragrant Yellow Onion
  8. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 298-299
  9. Soó von Bere, Károly Rezső. 1971. Acta Botanica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. Budapest. 16(3-4): 365, as Allium flavum var. adriaticum
  10. Priszter, Szaniszló. 1972. Botanikai Közlemenyek. Budapest 59(1): 46, as Allium flavum f. bulbilliferum
  11. Allioni, Carlo. 1785. Flora Pedemontana sive Enumeratio Methodica Stirpium Indigenarum Pedemontii ii. 157., as Allium paniculatum
  12. Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel 1837. Flora Telluriana 2: 19, as Kalabotis flavum
  13. Archibald William Smith A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins, p. 258, at Google Books
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