Allium splendensWilld. ex Schult. & Schult.f.

glittering chive

WFO wfo-0000757411 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. a Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-04 / obs. 155245498
Allium splendens, photographed by Andrew Bazdyrev
fig. b Andrew Bazdyrev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112548169
Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. c Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147794190
Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. d Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152759301
Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. e Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152932244
Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. f Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151353758
Allium splendens, photographed by Юлия
fig. g Юлия, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151413900
Allium splendens, photographed by Дмитрий
fig. h Дмитрий, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86143655

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Native range 17 botanical countries

Regions where Allium splendens is native: Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tuva, Yakutiya AmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTuvaYakutiya Korea
Native distribution of Allium splendens, 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
Amur AMU ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tuva TVA
Yakutiya YAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 1 synonym

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 splendens var. kurilense Kitam.

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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