Allium denticulatum is a species of wild onion known by the common name toothed wild onion. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the western Mojave Desert and adjacent Tehachapi Mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada. This onion grows from a reddish brown spherical to oval-shaped bulb just over a centimeter long. It produces a stem up to 18 centimeters tall and a single cylindrical leaf up to twice as long as the stem. The flower cluster contains up to 30 flowers with deep pink to purplish petals which are toothed at their tips.
Allium denticulatum
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