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Bolander's onion, potato bulb, slender-stem onion

Bulbs

oblique-oblong, ± irregularly shaped, suggesting small tuber, 0.9–1.4 cm;

outer coats pale brown, breaking with irregular edges, cells of reticulum wavy.

Flowers

9–14 mm;

tepals narrowly lanceolate, apex acute.

2n

= 14.

Allium bolanderi var. mirabile

Phenology Flowering late May–early Jul.
Habitat Clay soils, including serpentine
Elevation 50–1000 m (200–3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 259.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Allium > Allium bolanderi
Sibling taxa
A. bolanderi var. bolanderi
Synonyms A. mirabile
Name authority (L. F. Henderson) McNeal: Phytologia 73: 307. (1992)
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