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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 14 taxa in the family Alliaceae, Onion family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Spring Starflower, Spring Star, Star of Bethlehem
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Ipheion uniflorum FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Tristagma uniflorum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Ipheion uniflorum 041-34-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Commonly cultivated, escaping to lawns, suburban woodlands, bottomlands, disturbed places
Rare
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Field Garlic, Wild Onion, Onion-grass, Crow Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Allium vineale FAMILY: Alliaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Allium vineale ssp. vineale FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium vineale 041-35-001 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Lawns, pastures, other disturbed places
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Wild Onion, Meadow Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium canadense FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium canadense var. canadense FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium canadense var. canadense 041-35-002a FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Bottomland forests, pastures, roadsides
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mobile Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium mobilense FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium canadense var. mobilense FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium canadense var. mobilense 041-35-002b FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Dry woodlands, prairies
Uncommon in GA, rare in Carolinas
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Cuthbert's Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Allium cuthbertii FAMILY: Alliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Allium cuthbertii FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium cuthbertii 041-35-003 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, other dry sandy areas
Uncommon
Native to South Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Keever’s Onion, Brushy Mountain Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Allium keeverae FAMILY: Alliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Allium cuthbertii FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium cuthbertii 041-35-003? FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: In thin soils around rock outcrops, receiving nutrient-rich seepage and occurring with many calciphiles
Rare (endemic to the Brushy Mountains in NC's nw. Piedmont (Alexander & Wilkes counties))
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Flatrock Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium speculae FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium speculae FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Seepy edges of vegetation mats on Lithonia granitic gneiss and on sandstone in ne. AL
Rare
Native to Georgia & possibly South Carolina
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Common Name:
Wild Leek, Yorktown Onion, Elephant Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (4/14/23) Allium ampeloprasum FAMILY: Alliaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Allium ampeloprasum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium ampeloprasum 041-35-004 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Roadsides and other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Nodding Onion, Nodding Wild Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium cernuum FAMILY: Alliaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Allium cernuum var. cernuum FAMILY: Liliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium cernuum 041-35-005 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Generally in open woodlands or around outcrops of shale, mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks, in the mountains at low elevations
Uncommon in NC, rare in GA & SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glade Onion, Prairie Onion
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium stellatum FAMILY: Alliaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Allium stellatum FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Limestone glades, calcareous prairies, calcareous barrens
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Red Ramps, Rampscallions, Wild Leek
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium tricoccum FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium tricoccum FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium tricoccum 041-35-007 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Cove forests and mesic slope forests
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in GA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Common Name: Narrowleaf Ramps, White Ramps
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium burdickii FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium burdickii FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Northern hardwood forests, primarily at higher elevations than A. tricoccum, also in cove forests and rich slopes
Rare
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Garlic, Grace Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Nothoscordum bivalve FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Nothoscordum bivalve FAMILY: Liliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Allium bivalve 041-35-008 FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Around granite flatrocks, in glades and barrens of various kinds, in open woodlands, prairies, and also weedy in fields and along roadsides
Common (rare in Carolina Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cultivated Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Allium sativum FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium sativum FAMILY: Liliaceae
Habitat: Gardens, trash heaps, fields; commonly cultivated, rarely occurring as a waif or persistent in gardens
Waif(s)
Non-native: Eurasia
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