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Internal ID UUID6440249debc9d179270446
Scientific name Allium hoffmanii
Authority Ownbey ex Traub
First published in Pl. Life 28: 63 (1972)

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Allium hoffmanii, also known as beegum onion, is a wild onion species native to northern California. It thrives in the serpentine soils of Siskiyou, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, and Tehama Counties. This plant has a short stem and a brown or reddish bulb, with a single leaf that can be longer than the stem. Its inflorescence contains up to 40 pink or purple flowers with greenish veining, each about a centimeter long. The stamens have purple anthers at the tips and are bumpy at their bases.

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English beegum onion

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000756411
USDA Plants ALHO
Tropicos 18401681
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:8785-2
The Plant List kew-295719
Open Tree Of Life 197335
Observations.org 269972
NCBI Taxonomy 472412
Nature Serve 2.134123
IPNI 528164-1
iNaturalist 75345
GBIF 2856947
Freebase /m/04gw409
EOL 1084570
Elurikkus 318387
Calflora (Californian flora) 198
Wikipedia Allium_hoffmanii

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