Allium griffithianum is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is an onion found in the high mountains of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. It is a perennial herb up to 40 cm tall, with a hemispherical umbel of flowers, white or light pink or pale purple.Flora of PakistanKew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesPierre Edmond Boissier. 1859. Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium novarum. Lipsiae ser. 2, 4: 117.Merkodovich, N.A. (ed.) (1941). Flora Uzbekistana 1: 1-566. Izd-va Akademii nauk Uzbekskoi SSR, Tashkent.Ovczinnikov, P.N. (ed.) (1963). Flora Tadzhikskoi SSR 2: 1-454. Izd-vo Akademii nauk SSSR, MoskvaLazkov, G.A., Ganybaeva, M.R. & Toktosunova, K.R. (2007). New and rare species for the flora of Kirghizia. Botanicheskii Zhurnal. Moscow & Leningrad 92: 1071-1076.
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