Taxon: Allium schoenoprasum L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Allium schoenoprasum subsp. latiorifolium (no accessions)
• Allium schoenoprasum subsp. orosiae (no accessions)
• Allium schoenoprasum subsp. schoenoprassum (no accessions)

Common names:

• asatsuki   (Source: Names Batra )
  
• bei cong   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  
• cebolinha-francesa   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• cebolleta   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• cebollino común   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• chives   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• ciboulette   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• cipollina   (Source: HerbSpices )
  
• civette   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• ezo-negi   (Source: F JapanOhwi )
  
• Schnittlauch   (Source: HerbSpices )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (leaves as herb, spice fide Onions)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of leek   (fide Allium Crop Sci 89. 2002)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  

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View toxicology references for Allium schoenoprasum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Iraq [n.]; Turkey [e.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Chita, Gorno-Altay, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Taymyr, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen, Yakutia-Sakha, Yamal Nenets
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan [e.]; Kyrgyzstan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Primorye
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Xinjiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - Nenets
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: Canada - Northwest Territory, Yukon Territory; United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Minnesota, Wisconsin
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon [n.], Washington [e.], Wyoming

Other:

• also cultivated

References:

• Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature. (Names Batra)
• Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:14.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. (HerbSpices)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Friesen, N. & F. R. Blattner. 2000. RAPD analysis reveals geographic differentiations within Allium schoenoprasum L. (Alliaceae). Pl. Biol. 2:297–305.
• Friesen, N. 1996. A taxonomic and chorological revision of the genus Allium L. sect. Schoenoprason Dumort. Candollea 51:467.
• Havey, M. J. 1991. Phylogenetic relationships among cultivated Allium species from restriction enzyme analysis of the chloroplast genome. Theor. Appl. Genet. 81:752–757. [this study using four USDA accessions (PI 280578, 280580, 371880 & 401719) found that this taxon clusters with A. cepa & A. fistulosum].
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. (F Pacif NW)
• Kik, C. 2002. Chapter 4. Exploitation of wild relatives for the breeding of cultivated Allium species. In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium Crop Science: Recent Advances 81–100. [mentions the use of this taxon & A. fistulosum for crosses with leek to increase cytoplasmic variation].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Raamsdonk, L. W. D. van et al. 2000. Phylogeny reconstruction and hybrid analysis in Allium subgenus Rhizirideum. Theor. Appl. Genet. 100:1000–1009. [this study found based on nDNA that it clusters with other members of the section (A. altyncolicum & A. karelinii); using Hybrid Distance method this taxon shows values that indicate little in common with A. cepa].
• Raamsdonk, L. W. D. van et al. 2003. Biodiversity assessment based in cpDNA and crossability analysis in selected species of Allium subgenus Rhizirideum. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:1048–1058. [this study tested for crossability with A. cepa resulting in no hybrid seeds; phylogenetic analysis resulted in non-USDA accessions that clustered together with the exception of one].
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Sancir, C. 1992. A revision of the genus Allium L. in the flora of Mongolian People's Republic. In: Hanelt, P. et al., eds., The genus Allium - taxonomic problems and genetic resources. Proceedings of an international symposium held at Gatersleben, Germany, June 11-13, 1991. (Allium TaxGR) 289–296. [recognized in the subg. Rhizirideum sect. Schoenoprasum].
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. (F Canada)
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England. (F NEng)
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora. (F Mich)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium schoenoprasum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium schoenoprasum var. alpinum DC.
  
• (=) Allium schoenoprasum var. foliosum Regel
  
• (=) Allium sibiricum L.
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)

Check other databases for Allium schoenoprasum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• 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.

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