Allium carinatumL.

toothed onion

WFO wfo-0000755899 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Allium carinatum, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-30 / obs. 193607350
Allium carinatum, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. b Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193606095
Allium carinatum, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. c Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193606137
Allium carinatum, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. d Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193607312
Allium carinatum, photographed by Leah Gardner
fig. e Leah Gardner, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189121279
Allium carinatum, photographed by Alex Heyman
fig. f Alex Heyman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 72257276
Allium carinatum, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. g Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 52263664
Allium carinatum, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. h Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193405543

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Allium carinatum is native: Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine TürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Allium carinatum, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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 421 in flower of 513 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Allium carinatum 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. 421 of 513 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 36 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.

  • Aglitheis carinata (L.) Raf.
  • Allium asperum G.Don
  • Allium calcareum Reut.
  • Allium carinatum subsp. asperum (G.Don) K.Richt.
  • Allium carinatum subsp. violaceum (Nyman) K.Richt.
  • Allium carinatum var. asperum (G.Don) Nyman
  • Allium carinatum var. consimile (Jord. ex Gren. & Godr.) Nyman
  • Allium carinatum var. flexum (Waldst. & Kit.) Nyman
  • Allium carinatum var. violaceum Nyman
  • Allium cirrhosum Vand.
  • Allium coloratum Spreng.
  • Allium consimile Jord. ex Gren. & Godr.
  • Allium denticulatum Kit.
  • Allium flavum subsp. pulchellum (G.Don) K.Richt.
  • Allium flavum var. pulchellum (G.Don) Regel
  • Allium flexifolium Jord.
  • Allium flexum Waldst. & Kit.
  • Allium flexum var. flexifolium (Jord. ex Gren. & Godr.) Jauzein & J.-M.Tison
  • Allium flexuosum Host
  • Allium foetidum Willd.
  • Allium fuscum Schrad. ex Hornem.
  • Allium ligusticum De Not.
  • Allium monserratense Pourr. ex Willk. & Lange
  • Allium montenegrinum Beck & Szyszyl.

and 12 more.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol ALDE6. public domain. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.