Allium lacunosum var. davisiae

Davis' pitted onion

Family: Alliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Davis' pitted onion is a California native perennial found in the western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, southern eastern Sierra Nevada, and eastern Mojave Desert regions on open, sandy slopes and ridges at elevations of 600 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces small white to pale pink flowers in open clusters with 10 to 35 individual blooms. Growing with slender stems reaching 15 to 30 centimeters tall, it emerges from underground bulbs with a delicate, clumped growth habit. Its leaves are narrow and grass-like, typically appearing early in the growing season before drying out as temperatures rise. The flower clusters are subtended by two distinctive bracts, with individual flower pedicels 10 to 25 millimeters long.

Habitat: Uncommon. Open, sandy slopes, ridges

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 600-2100 m

Bioregions: WTR, SnBr, SNE, DMoj.

California counties: San Bernardino, Kern, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, Ventura, San Diego, Inyo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.