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Most habitat and range descriptions were obtained from Weakley's Flora.
Your search found 13 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: (5/21/15) Tristagma 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
Look for it in lawns, suburban woodlands, bottomlands, disturbed places
Rare, commonly cultivated and escaping
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Field Garlic, Wild Onion, Crow Garlic, Onion Grass
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it in lawns, pastures, other disturbed places
Common
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Wild Onion, Meadow Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it in bottomland forests, pastures, on roadsides
Common (uncommon in Mountains of GA-NC-SC & Coastal Plain of GA)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Mobile Onion
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) Allium mutabile 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
Look for it in dry woodlands, prairies
Uncommon in GA, rare in NC-SC
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Cuthbert's Onion
Weakley's Flora: (2/8/20) 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
Look for it in sandhills, granite domes and flatrocks
Uncommon to rare (an endemic)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Keever’s Onion, Brushy Mountain Onion
Weakley's Flora: (6/30/18) 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
Look for it in thin soils around rock outcrops, receiving nutrient-rich seepage and occurring with many strict calciphiles (endemic to the Brushy Mountains of Alexander and Wilkes counties, NC)
Rare, endemic to two NC counties
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Flatrock Onion
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Allium speculae FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium speculae FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in seepy edges of vegetation mats on Lithonia granitic gneiss (and on sandstone in northeast AL)
Rare (an endemic)
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Wild Leek, Yorktown Onion
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) Allium ampeloprasum FAMILY: Alliaceae
(?) INCLUDING 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
Look for it on roadsides and other disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: Eurasia
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Common Name:
Nodding Onion, Nodding Wild Onion
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it generally in open woodlands or around outcrops of shale, mafic, ultramafic, or calcareous rocks, in the mountains at low elevations
Uncommon (rare in SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Glade Onion, Prairie Onion
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Allium stellatum FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium stellatum FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in limestone glades, calcareous prairies, calcareous barrens
Rare
Native to Georgia
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Common Name:
Ramps, Red Ramps, Rampscallions, Wild Leek
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it in cove forests and mesic slope forests
Common in NC Mountains, uncommon in GA
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
False Garlic, Grace Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (5/21/15) 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
Look for it around granite flatrocks, in glades and barrens of various kinds, in open woodlands, and also weedy in fields and along roadsides
Common (rare in Mountains of SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Cultivated Garlic
Weakley's Flora: (10/20/20) Allium sativum FAMILY: Alliaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Allium sativum FAMILY: Liliaceae
Look for it in gardens, trash heaps, fields
Commonly cultivated, rarely occurring as a waif or persistent in gardens
Non-native: Eurasia
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