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|accepted_name=Allium acuminatum
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=2: 184, plate 196. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium acuminatum var. cuspidatum
|authority=Fernald
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium cuspidatum
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium acuminatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Allium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Allium acuminatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 231, 262
|treatment_page=page 261
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>1–12+, not basally clustered, not forming rhizomes, ovoid to ± globose, 0.8–1.6 × 0.9–1.6 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more renewal bulbs, ± yellow-brown, prominently cellular-reticulate, membranous, cells square or polygonal, walls thick, obscurely sinuous, without fibers; inner coats white, cells obscure, ± quadrate. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, withering from tip by anthesis, 2–3, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, subterete or ± channeled, 7–30 cm × 1–3 mm, margins entire. <b>Scape</b> persistent, solitary, erect, solid, terete, 10–35 cm × 1–3 mm. <b>Umbel</b> persistent, erect, loose, 10–40-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 3–7-veined, lanceolate to ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> campanulate, 8–15 mm; tepals erect, pink to rose-purple, or white, lanceolate to lance-ovate, unequal, becoming rigid and keeled in fruit, margins finely denticulate (inner tepal more prominently so), apex acuminate, outer tepal longer and wider than inner, spreading to recurved at tip, inner tepal with strongly recurved tips; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen yellow; ovary crested; processes 3, central, 2-lobed, rounded, minute, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, obscurely 3-lobed; pedicel 6–25 mm. <b>Seed</b> coat dull or shining; cells minutely roughened. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry slopes and plains
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium acuminatum
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium acuminatum var. cuspidatum;Allium cuspidatum
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Dry slopes and plains
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Nev.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=1838
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Allium
|species=Allium acuminatum
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