Carried by 0 nurseries
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Allium sanbornii is a species of wild onion known by the common name Sanborn's onion. It is native to California and southern Oregon where it grows in the serpentine soils of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada foothills. This onion grows from a reddish brown bulb up to about 2.5 centimeters long. It produces a stem up to 60 centimeters long and a single cylindrical leaf which is about the same length. The flower cluster bears as many as 150 small flowers, each with petals less than a centimeter long in shades of pink to white.
Perennial herb, Geophyte
White, Pink
Partial Shade
Moderate
Rocky outcrops
Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 8 likely
Ipsilon Dart
Agrotis ipsilon
Fruit-Tree Leafroller Moth
Archips argyrospila
Alfalfa Looper Moth
Autographa californica
Tessellate Dart
Euxoa tessellata