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§1 Plant

Allium perdulce S.V. Fraser

vernacular plains onion — species · Liliaceae


USDA
ALPE2
GBIF
2856317
Rank
species
plains onion (Allium perdulce)
Platephotograph · Chuck SextonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Allium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 105 counties across 7 states/territories
Legend Native · 105 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 105 counties across 7 states/territories.

Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kansas view state ↗ 31 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 15 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 10 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 17 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 6 N
Texas view state ↗ 25 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ALPE2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2856317 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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