Allium callimischon is a plant species native to southwestern Turkey and to southern Greece (including Peloponnese and the Island of Crete).Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families It is grown in other countries as an ornamental because of its attractive flowers.Pacific Bulb Society, Allium species one
Allium callimischon is a perennial herb up to 30 cm tall. It has small bulbs and thread-like leaves. Flowers are borne in an umbel, white with thin purple midveins on the tepals.Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link. 1834. Linnaea 9: 140Stearn, William Thomas. 1978. Annales Musei Goulandris; Contributiones ad Historiam Naturalem Graeciae et Regionis Mediterraneae. Kifisia, Athens 4: 154.
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