Kingdom Plantae Clade Monocots Family Amaryllidaceae Scientific name Allium senescens Rank Species | Clade Angiosperms Order Asparagales Subfamily Allioideae Higher classification Onions | |
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Similar Onions, Allium sphaerocephalon, Allium victorialis, Allium scorodoprasum, Allium carinatum | ||
Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, German garlic, or broadleaf chives, is a perennial plant in the genus Allium.
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Description
It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows to between 8" and 40" in height. The foliage is thin, and strap like.
Taxonomy
Two subspecies have been named:
Distribution
Allium senescens is indigenous to middle, eastern, southeastern, and southwestern Europe (in Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and the former Yugoslavia); Eurasia (in the Ukraine and much of Russia, including Siberia, Amur, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky Krai, and Tuva); and Asia (in Kazakhstan, Korea, Mongolia and China, including the provinces of Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, and northern Xinjiang). Elsewhere it is also deliberately planted and cultivated for garden use.
Uses
Allium senescens is grown for its ornamental and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to A. cepa (the common onion).
