Taxon: Allium cepa L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Allium cepa var. aggregatum (2 accessions)
• Allium cepa var. cepa (95 accessions)

Common names:

• bulb onion   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• ever-ready onion   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• multiplier onion   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• onion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• onion   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• potato onion   (Source: Mansf Ency [as A. cepa Aggregatum Group]) – English   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• shallot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• shallot   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• Spanish onion   (Source: Brewster 1994) – English   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• spring onion   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• basal   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• huo cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• yang cong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• échalote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• oignon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• oignon patate   (Source: UPOV ) – French   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• Küchenzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• Schalotte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• Sommerzwiebel   (Source: Zander ed17 [as A. cepa Cepa Group]) – German   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• Speisezwiebel   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• cipolla   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ogba   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:75.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• yangba   (Source: Kulturpflanze 34:75.) – Transcribed Korean
  
• cebola   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• chalota   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• cebolla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Allium cepa var. cepa]
  
• chalote   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• escaluña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• lök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ency CNatIn; Pl Res SEAs 12(1):98. 1999; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2; Biodiv Conserv 13:459. 2004)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kellerman et al.; Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann; Everist; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Allium cepa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Indo-China: Indochina
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  Brazil: Brazil

References:

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• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium cepa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium cepa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium cepa.

Synonyms:

• Allium ascalonicum auct. [= Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Allium cepa var. solaninum Alef. [= Allium cepa var. aggregatum]
  
• (=) "Allium cumaria Buch.-Ham., nom. inval."
  

Check other web resources for Allium cepa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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