Allium rotundumL.

WFO wfo-0000757183 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205252965
Allium rotundum, photographed by Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun
fig. b Иван Ковтун Ivan Kovtun, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200500516
Allium rotundum, photographed by Petra Caltová
fig. c Petra Caltová, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199590928
Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176137616
Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175279052
Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175279209
Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162728277
Allium rotundum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152506759

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Allium rotundum is native: Morocco, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine MoroccoCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine
Native distribution of Allium rotundum, 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
Belarus BLR EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Morocco MOR AFRICA

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 260 in flower of 331 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Allium rotundum 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. 260 of 331 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 8 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 40 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 ampeloprasum Thunb.
  • Allium ampeloprasum subsp. paterfamilias (Boiss.) K.Richt.
  • Allium ampeloprasum var. paterfamilias (Boiss.) Nyman
  • Allium baumannianum K.Koch
  • Allium cambiasii De Not.
  • Allium cilicicum Boiss.
  • Allium descendens Pall. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium erectum G.Don
  • Allium gracilescens Sommier & Levier
  • Allium jajlae Vved.
  • Allium jajlae var. baidarense Seregin
  • Allium multiflorum Kunth
  • Allium paterfamilias Boiss.
  • Allium porphyroprasum Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.
  • Allium preslianum Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium rotundifolium Lumn. ex Steud.
  • Allium rotundum subsp. erectum (G.Don) K.Richt.
  • Allium rotundum subsp. jajlae (Vved.) B.Mathew
  • Allium rotundum subsp. preslianum (Schult. & Schult.f.) K.Richt.
  • Allium rotundum subsp. waldsteinii (G.Don) K.Richt.
  • Allium rotundum var. cambiasii (De Not.) Nyman
  • Allium rotundum var. erectum (G.Don) Regel
  • Allium rotundum var. melleum Miscz. ex Grossh.
  • Allium rotundum var. porphyroprasum (Heldr. & Sart. ex Boiss.) Nyman

and 16 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. 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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