Allium senescensL.

German garlicornamental onion

WFO wfo-0000757326 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 3 separate observations

Allium senescens, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. a Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-30 / obs. 132523539
Allium senescens, photographed by Анна Васильченко
fig. b Анна Васильченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132309318
Allium senescens, photographed by Ochirnima Nimaev
fig. c Ochirnima Nimaev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112018893

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Allium senescens is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, Xinjiang, Yakutiya AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaXinjiangYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Allium senescens, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

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.

Also published as 24 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 andersonii G.Don
  • Allium angulosum var. minor Ledeb.
  • Allium angulosum var. minum Ledeb.
  • Allium baicalense Willd.
  • Allium danubiale Rchb. ex Kunth
  • Allium glaucum Schrad. ex Poir.
  • Allium glaucum subsp. serotinum (Regel) K.Richt.
  • Allium illyricum Link & Otto ex Kunth
  • Allium kungii Nakai
  • Allium laucum Schrad.
  • Allium montanum var. serotinum (Regel) Nyman
  • Allium narcissifolium Scop.
  • Allium purpureum Salisb.
  • Allium senescens f. albiflorum Q.S.Sun
  • Allium senescens var. brevipedicellatum Regel
  • Allium senescens var. flavescens Regel
  • Allium senescens var. glaucum Regel
  • Allium senescens var. serotinum Regel
  • Allium serotinum Schleich. ex G.Don
  • Allium sessiliflorum Fisch. ex Regel
  • Cepa senescens (L.) Moench
  • Rhizirideum acutangulum Fourr.
  • Rhizirideum fallax Fourr.
  • Xylorhiza senescens (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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