Allium lineare is a Eurasian species of wild onions with a wide range extending from France to Mongolia.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesPavlov, N.V. (ed.) (1958). Flora Kazakhstana 2: 1-290. Alma-Ata, Izd-vo Akademii nauk Kazakhskoi SSR.Grubov, V.I. (2001). Key to the Vascular Plants of Mongolia 1: 1-411. Science Publishers, Inc. Enfield, USA. Plymouth, U.K.Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova, G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
Allium lineare has one or two bulbs each up to 15 cm across. Scape is up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are flat, shorter than the scape, very narrow, rarely more than 5 mm across. Flowers red.Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 295. in Latin
formerly included Allium lineare var. maackii Maxim., now called Allium maackii (Maxim.) Prokh. ex Kom. Allium lineare var. strictum (Schrad.) Trevir., now called Allium strictum Schrad.
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