Allium falcifolium (Sickle Leaf Onion)

10 (15)cm, Sickle Leaf Onion makes short but broad, flattened stems with broad, falcate leaves tinged red in full sun and a quite large, lax umbel of intense bright purple, narrow, bell shaped flowers. A very showy species which is native throughout the western USA growing in dry, sunny, rocky mountain slopes. Requires a well drained soil in a sunny spot, excellent in the rock garden. Seeds from a wild collection in Josephine County, Oregon, USA at some 700m. V-VI.
30 seeds per package.