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Aging chive
Allium senescens
Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, German garlic, broadleaf chives, or dumebuchu, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium (which includes all the ornamental and culinary onions and garlic).
From the article Allium senescens on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
A bulbous herbaceous perennial, it produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows 8–40 inches (20–102 cm) in height. The foliage is thin and straplike.
Range & habitat
Allium senescens is native to northern Europe and Asia, from Siberia to Korea. It has been introduced and naturalized in some parts of Europe, including the Czech Republic and former Yugoslavia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
At the table
Allium senescens is grown for its ornamental qualities, and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to A. cepa (the common onion). In the UK it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Allium senescens in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 466076.