Allium plummerae is a species of plant native to southern Arizona (Pima and Cochise Counties) in the United States and to Sonora in Mexico.Allium plummerae. Plant Abstracts. Arizona Game and Fish Department. It is known by the common names Plummer's onion and Tanner's Canyon onion. It grows on rocky slopes and stream banks in mountains regions at elevations of 1600–2800 m.Flora of North America v 26 p 242, Allium plummeraeBONAP (Biota of North America Project) floristic synthesis,Allium plummerae CONABIO. 2009. Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. 1. In Capital Nat. México. CONABIO, Mexico, D.F.
Allium plummerae produces elongate bulbs up to 5 cm long but rarely more than 1.5 cm in diameter. Flowers are up to 10 mm across; tepals white or pink; anthers purple; pollen yellow.Sereno Watson. 1883. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18: 195. Kearney, T. H. and R. H. Peebles. 1960. Arizona Flora. University of California Press, Berkeley.
The epithet "plummerae" is in honor of one member of the expedition that collected those specimens, botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon.
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External links NatureServe Explorer: Allium plummerae