Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal is a plant in the Amaryllidaceae family, order Asparagales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal

Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal

Allium sharsmithiae is a bulbous flowering plant with deep reddish-purple urn-shaped flowers and yellow anthers and pollen.

Genus
Allium
Order
Asparagales
Class
Liliopsida

About Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal

Allium sharsmithiae produces bulbs that are round to egg-shaped, reaching up to 2 centimeters in diameter. Its flowering stalk is round in cross-section, solid rather than hollow, and grows up to 20 centimeters tall. Its flowers are urn-shaped, measuring up to 2 centimeters across, with deep reddish-purple tepals, and yellow anthers and pollen.

Photo: (c) David Greenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by David Greenberger · cc-by-nc-nd

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Liliopsida Asparagales Amaryllidaceae Allium

More from Amaryllidaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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