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Allium strictum |
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Eurasian allium species growing in a pocket of our rock garden. It entered our garden as seed of 'Allium platycaule', but when it clearly was not that, I got some online help to identify it (there's also a possibility it is A. hymenorrhizum, which is distinguished by its strongly falcate [curved like a siccle] initial leaf emergence). The little pink flower clusters are nice enough, and I like how they are held on tall slender stems. The seedheads, developing throughout June and July, keep the attraction going after the flowers fade. They stay very tight, which I find more attractive than the looser seed clusters of many of their genus-mates.
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| | Buds just barely opening, with the papery husk that covered the entire cluster still hanging on |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. Seed for this plant is included on my seed trade list About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Allium strictum
- Seed from NARGS '08/'09 exchange (obtained as 'A. platycaule'). Baggy 70F (90%G, 5-9d)
- Same seed as above, cold-stored through summer. Baggy 70F (92%G, 5d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F (90%G, 5d)
- Seed from '12 garden. Baggy 70F (73%G, 5-8d)
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