Allium parishii

Parish's onion, Parish's onion, Parish's onion

Family: Alliaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Parish's onion is a native perennial found in northern San Bernardino Mountains and Mojave Desert regions on open rocky slopes at elevations of 900 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces pale pink flowers in clusters of 6 to 25 blooms, each flower 12 to 18 millimeters long with spreading lanceolate petals. Growing with slender stems 5 to 25 centimeters tall, it emerges from a small ovoid bulb 10 to 15 millimeters wide with brown to red-brown outer layers. Its single leaf is cylindrical and roughly one to two times the length of the stem, emerging from a distinctive pink-layered underground bulb. The plant's delicate pale pink flowers feature six ovary crests that are either entire or finely and irregularly toothed.

Habitat: Open rocky slopes

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 900-1400 m

Bioregions: n SnBr, DMoj

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles, Kern

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