Botanical name: Allium carolinianum    Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
Synonyms: Allium thomsonii, Allium polyphyllum, Allium platystylum

Stout Alpine Onion is a rather stout onion with a very dense globular umbel of pink flowers, borne on stout stems usually 10-30 cm, with usually shorter broad flat and curved, glaucous leaves. Flower umbels are 2-3.5 cm across, borne atop a 20-40 cm long flowering stem. Flowers are cylindrical, tepals pink to rose, elliptic pointed 6-7 mm long much shorter than the stamens. Filaments are longer than the tepals, entire, fused at the base, style protruding, stigma headlike. Spathe-lobes broadly ovate, shorter than umbel. Leaves are several, blunt, 4-12 mm broad, shorter than flowering stems, curved. Bulbs are relatively large, oblong-cylindric, covered with prominent leathery scales. Stout Alpine Onion is found on stony slopes in the Himalayas, from Afghanistan to C. Nepal, Central Asia to Mongolia, at altitudes of 3300-5000 m. Flowering: July-August.

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