Carried by 3 nurseries
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Allium falcifolium is a species of wild onion known by the common name scytheleaf onion. It is native to northern California and southern Oregon, where it grows in heavy, rocky soils, especially serpentine soils. The scytheleaf onion grows from a reddish-brown bulb one to two centimeters wide. The reddish or yellowish green stem is flattened such that it is thick in the center and thin along the edges. There are usually two leaves, which, as its common name suggests, are curved like the blade of a scythe The stem is short and topped with an flower cluster of 10 to 30 flowers, each of which is one to one and a half centimeters wide. Each flower has six pinkish, red-purple, or white-streaked purple petals.
Perennial herb, Geophyte
Pink, White, Purple, Red
Spring, Summer
Full Sun
Moderate
Slow
5, 7*, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17
places with heavy soils
Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Mixed Evergreen Forest, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 14 likely
Ipsilon Dart
Agrotis ipsilon
Fruit-Tree Leafroller Moth
Archips argyrospila
Alfalfa Looper Moth
Autographa californica
Soybean Looper Moth
Chrysodeixis includens