Allium commutatum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 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 commutatum, photographed by Nico Hernandez — fig. a Nico Hernandez, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-08-27 / obs. 84150170

Allium commutatum, photographed by Paul Braun — fig. b Paul Braun, CC0 1.0 / obs. 21255965

Allium commutatum, photographed by Petr Harant — fig. c Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169384312

Allium commutatum, photographed by Ljaž — fig. e Ljaž, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147494823

Allium commutatum, photographed by Martin Scheuch — fig. f Martin Scheuch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 84886450

Allium commutatum, photographed by Rafael Medina — fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 22325721

Allium commutatum, photographed by Lera Miles — fig. h Lera Miles, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 2379681

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 14 botanical countries

Native distribution of Allium commutatum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Baleares	BAL
Corse	COR
France	FRA
Greece	GRC
Italy	ITA
Kriti	KRI
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Sardegna	SAR
Sicilia	SIC
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Tunisia	TUN
East Aegean Is.	EAI	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Türkiye	TUR

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 64 in flower of 138 examined

62%

84%

17%

Proportion of examined Allium commutatum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	1	too few examined
Feb	0	5	0%	0% to 43%
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	11	0%	0% to 26%
May	1	13	8%	1% to 33%
Jun	23	37	62%	46% to 76%
Jul	38	45	84%	71% to 92%
Aug	1	11	9%	2% to 38%
Sep	1	6	17%	3% to 56%
Oct	0	8	0%	0% to 32%
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Allium commutatum 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. 64 of 138 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 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 11 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 aestivale Gand.
Allium aestivale J.J.Rodr.
Allium ampeloprasum subsp. bimetrale (Gand.) Hayek
Allium ampeloprasum subsp. pruinosum K.Richt.
Allium ampeloprasum var. commutatum (Guss.) Fiori
Allium ampeloprasum var. lussinense Haracic
Allium ampeloprasum var. pruinosum Boiss.
Allium bimetrale Gand.
Allium pruinosum Candargy
Allium rotundum subsp. commutatum (Guss.) Nyman
Allium wildii Heldr.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.