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Allium cassium

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Authors: Boiss.  

Botanical Description

Bulbs ovoid, usually clustering. Stems 10-25cm high. Leaves narrowly linear, shorter than stems. Flowers bell-shaped, 7-10mm long, white aging pink with a mauve or pink central vein, in hemispherical umbels 2.5-5cm across, summer.

Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, in pine and mixed forest, oak, grassland, limestone slopes at 1000-2800m. A.c. var. hirtellum, syn. A. troodii, has pubescent leaves.