Taxon: Allium acuminatum Hook.

Common names:

• Hooker's onion   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• tapertip onion   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• Kerzenlauch   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• näbblök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia [s.]
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado [w.], Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming [w.]
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California [n.], Nevada, Utah

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium acuminatum.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium acuminatum.

Check other web resources for Allium acuminatum Hook.:

• 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
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

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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