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Allium schubertii


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Allium schubertii has rosey purple, star-shaped flowers arranged like an exploding firework that can be as big as a volleyball!


Description:
Ornamental onions offer intriguing spherical or egg-shaped inflorescences comprised of hundreds of tiny flowers. A. schubertii has loose, volleyball-sized heads of rosy purple, star-shaped flowers held on stalks of unequal length which looks like a giant firework exploding. When the fruits ripen, the inflorescence detaches from the stem and rolls through the fields like a tumbelweed thus dispersing the seeds. From Israel and adjacent regions. Available in spring as potted plants and in fall as dry bulbs.


Common Name: Tumbleweed Onion - [Spring B&B Pre-Order]

Family: Amaryllidaceae (The Amaryllis Family)

Zone Hardiness: 3-9

Light: Full Sun, Part Sun

Height: 12-24"

Width: 4-8"

Primary Bloom Colour: Purple

Secondary Bloom Colour: Green

Class: Deciduous

Type: Perennial

Bloom Time: Spring

Soil Moisture: Average, Dry

Stem Colour:

Fragrance: No

Berries:

Benefits: Butterflies, Bees

Deer Resistant: Unknown

BC Native: No

Native Habitat: Deep soils.

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Geogrpahical Origin: Asia and the Pacific - Southwest Asia and Asia Minor

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