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Crinkled Onion

Allium peninsulare

Description:

Magenta flowers with three, pointed petals in one layer than another layer of three that are rotated 90º from the others. They're on bare stalks about 30 cm tall. I didn't see any leaves. "This onion grows from a bulb one to one and a half centimeters wide and sends up naked green stems topped with inflorescences of many flowers, each on a short pedicel. The flowers are magenta in color and have six triangular tepals. The inner three tepals are smaller and crinkled like cloth and may curl under." - Wikipedia

Habitat:

Grassy area in riparian area. This is native and endemic to the coastal ranges of California.

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San Diego, California, USA

Spotted on Apr 25, 2012
Submitted on Apr 25, 2012

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