Allium acuminatum

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Monocots
Ordo: Asparagales

Familia: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamilia: Allioideae
Tribus: Allieae
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: A. subg. Amerallium
Sectio: A. sect. Lophioprason
Subsectio: A. subsect. Acuminata
Species: Allium acuminatum
Name

Allium acuminatum Hook., 1838.
Synonyms

Heterotypic

Allium acuminatum var. cuspidatum Fernald, Zoe 4: 380. 1894.
Allium cuspidatum (Fernald) Rydb., Fl. Rocky Mts.: 160. 1917.
Allium elwesii Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 5: 266. 1877.
Allium murrayanum Regel, Gartenflora 22: 260. 1873.
Allium wallichianum Regel, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 3(2): 232. 1875, nom. inval.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
Arizona; British Columbia; California; Colorado; Idaho; Nevada; New Mexico; Oregon; Utah; Washington; Wyoming

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References

Hooker, W.J. 1838. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 184.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Allium acuminatum. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 20. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Allium acuminatum. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 20 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Allium acuminatum in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 20.
Tropicos.org 2018. Allium acuminatum. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 20.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2018. Allium acuminatum in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 20. Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Tapertip onion
français: Ail acuminé
thp: C̓epíʔes

Allium acuminatum, also known as the tapertip onion or Hooker's onion, is a species in the genus Allium native to North America.
Contents

1 Distribution
2 Description
3 References
4 External links

Distribution

It is found the Western United States and Canada. It has been reported from every state west of the Rocky Mountains, plus British Columbia.[2][3]
Description

Allium acuminatum produces bulbs that are spherical, less than 2 cm across and smelling like onions.[4] Scape is up to 40 cm tall, wearing an umbel of as many as 40 flowers. The flowers are pink to purple with yellow anthers.[2][5][6][7][8][9][10] The plant also produces two or three grooved leaves which tend to wither prior to bloom.[11]

The onions were eaten by first peoples in southern British Columbia. They were harvested in either early spring or late fall and usually cooked in pits.[4] Both the bulb and the flowering stalk are edible; however, in the culinary arts, the stalk possesses a more pleasant flavour.[4]
References

Tropicos
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). "Allium acuminatum". Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). New York and Oxford – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
"Allium acuminatum". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
Turner, Nancy J. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples (Victoria: UBC Press, 1997) ISBN 0-7748-0606-0
photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, isotype of "Allium acuminatum"
Hooker, William Jackson. 1838. Flora Boreali-Americana 2: 184, pl. 196.
Cronquist, A.J., A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren & Reveal. 1977. Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. 6: 1–584. In A.J. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, J. L. Reveal & P. K. Holmgren (eds.) Intermountain Flora. Hafner Pub. Co., New York.
Hickman, J. C. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California 1–1400. University of California Press, Berkeley
Hitchcock, C. H., A.J. Cronquist, F. M. Ownbey & J. W. Thompson. 1969. Vascular Cryptogams, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons. 1: 1–914. In C. L. Hitchcock, Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
Scoggan, H. J. 1978 [1979]. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Monocotyledoneae. 2: 93–545. In Flora of Canada. National Museums of Canada, Ottawa.
Taylor, Ronald J. (1994) [1992]. Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary (rev. ed.). Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Pub. Co. p. 76. ISBN 0-87842-280-3. OCLC 25708726.