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|accepted_name=Allium falcifolium
|accepted_authority=Hooker & Arnott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Beechey Voy.,
|place=400. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|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 breweri
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium falcifolium var. breweri
|authority=(S. Watson) M. E. Jones
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Allium;Allium falcifolium
|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 falcifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 233, 274
|treatment_page=page 275
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>1–5+, not clustered on stout primary rhizomes, rhizomes absent, increase bulbs absent or ± equaling parent bulbs, never appearing as basal cluster, ovoid, 1.5–2.5 × 1–1.8 cm; outer coats enclosing renewal and increase bulbs, brown to reddish brown, membranous, lacking cellular reticulation or cells arranged in only 2–3 rows distal to roots, ± quadrate, without fibers; inner coats white or pink, cells obscure, ± quadrate. <b>Leaves</b> usually deciduous with scape, withering from tip at anthesis, 2, basally sheathing, sheaths not extending much above soil surface; blade solid, flat, falcate, 8–21 cm × 2–8 mm, margins entire. <b>Scape</b> usually forming abcission layer and deciduous with leaves after seeds mature, frequently breaking at this level after pressing, solitary, erect, solid, strongly flattened, winged distally, 5–25 cm × 1–4 mm. <b>Umbel</b> persistent, erect, compact to ± loose, 10–30-flowered, hemispheric, bulbils unknown; spathe bracts persistent, 2, 6–9-veined, lanceolate, ± equal, apex acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> conic to campanulate, 9–15 mm; tepals erect, reddish purple or dingy white, lanceolate, ± equal, rigid and membranous in fruit, at least inner margins denticulate with minute glands, apex long-acuminate; stamens included; anthers purple or yellow; pollen yellow or white; ovary crested; processes 3, central, low, rounded, broad, margins entire; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed; pedicel 8–15 mm. <b>Seed</b> coat dull; cells ± smooth. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Heavy, rocky, clay soils, including serpentine
|elevation=100–2100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Allium falcifolium
|authority=Hooker & Arnott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium breweri;Allium falcifolium var. breweri
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Heavy, rocky, clay soils, including serpentine
|elevation=100–2100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Beechey Voy.,
|publication year=1841
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Allium
|species=Allium falcifolium
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