Taxon: Allium flavum L.

 
Genus: Allium
Subgenus: Allium
Section: Codonoprasum
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Tribe: Allieae
Nomen number: 2277
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:298. 1753
Link to protologue:
Typification:
Name Verified on: 01-oct-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 22-ene-2007
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6)
Accessions: 0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  • Non-vertebrate poisons: potential for weed control (fide Solymosi 1996)

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Africa
    • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Morocco

    Asia-Temperate
    • WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
    • CAUCASUS: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, [Dagestan] Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]

    Europe
    • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
    • EASTERN EUROPE: Moldova, Russian Federation-European part, [European part (s.)] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
    • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sicily), Romania
    • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France


    Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
  2. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988 (F Turk)
  3. Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
  4. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  5. Solymosi, P. 1996. Gyomszabályozálsra használlhatól donornölvélnyek (Donor plants for weed management) Növényvédelem 32:23-34.
  6. Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World (Herbertia) 11:11-34.
  7. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
  8. Valdés, B. et al., eds. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification. 2002 (L NMaroc)

Check other web resources for Allium flavum L. :

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=2277. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.