Allium victorialisL.

victory onion

WFO wfo-0000757703 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium victorialis, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. a Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205160728
Allium victorialis, photographed by Étienne Léveillé-Bourret
fig. b Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 108340256
Allium victorialis, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. c Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 77043655
Allium victorialis, photographed by xulescu_g
fig. d xulescu_g, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128409607
Allium victorialis, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. e Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 41854681
Allium victorialis, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. f Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 27014858
Allium victorialis, photographed by Petr Harant
fig. g Petr Harant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174796002
Allium victorialis, photographed by ikernf
fig. h ikernf, CC0 1.0 / obs. 4721216

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Allium victorialis is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusEast HimalayaNepalPakistanWest HimalayaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Allium victorialis, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
Nepal NEP
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS

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 94 in flower of 187 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Allium victorialis 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. 94 of 187 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 13 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 anguinum Bubani
  • Allium convallarifolium Pall. ex Ledeb.
  • Allium longibulbum Dulac
  • Allium plantaginense Willk. & Lange
  • Allium plantagineum Lam.
  • Allium reticulatum St.-Lag.
  • Anguinum victorialis (L.) Fourr.
  • Berenice victorialis (L.) Salisb.
  • Caloscordum victorialis (L.) Banfi & Galasso
  • Cepa victorialis (L.) Moench
  • Geboscon lanceolatum Raf.
  • Geboscon triphylum Raf.
  • Loncostemon victorialis (L.) Raf.

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.

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.