Allium angulosumL.

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WFO wfo-0000755648 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium angulosum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205253238

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Allium angulosum is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, West Siberia, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKrasnoyarskWest SiberiaAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Allium angulosum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
West Siberia WSB

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 148 in flower of 178 examined

Proportion of examined Allium angulosum in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 1 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 0 2 too few examined
May 9 20 45% 26% to 66%
Jun 38 41 93% 81% to 97%
Jul 61 61 100% 94% to 100%
Aug 30 32 94% 80% to 98%
Sep 8 17 47% 26% to 69%
Oct 1 2 too few examined
Nov 0 1 too few examined
Dec 1 1 too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Allium angulosum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 148 of 178 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 22 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allium acutangulum Schrad.
  • Allium acutangulum var. senescens Nyman
  • Allium angulare Pall.
  • Allium angulatum Pall.
  • Allium angulosum Krock.
  • Allium angulosum subsp. latifolium (Regel) K.Richt.
  • Allium angulosum var. danubiale (Spreng.) Trevir.
  • Allium angulosum var. latifolium Regel
  • Allium calcareum Wallr.
  • Allium danubiale Spreng.
  • Allium flavescens var. stramineum Nyman
  • Allium inodorum Willd.
  • Allium laxum G.Don
  • Allium microcephalum Willd. ex Kunth
  • Allium odorum Kar. & Kir.
  • Allium reticulatum Wallr.
  • Allium stramineum Schur
  • Allium triquetrum Schrad. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium uliginosum Kanitz
  • Cepa angulosa (L.) Bernh.
  • Maliga fastigiata Raf.
  • Xylorhiza angulosa (L.) Salisb.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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