Allium senescens


Allium senescens, commonly called aging chive, German garlic, broadleaf chives, or dumebuchu, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Allium.

Description

A bulbous herbaceous perennial, it produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows in height. The foliage is thin and straplike.

Taxonomy

Two subspecies have been named:

Distribution

Allium senescens is native to northern Europe and Asia, from Siberia to Korea. It has been introduced and naturalized in some parts of Europe, including the Czech Republic and former Yugoslavia.

Uses

Allium senescens is grown for its ornamental qualities, and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to A. cepa. In the UK it has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of [Garden Merit].