Allium ramosum

Allium ramosum, called Fragrant-flowered Garlic[4] or Chinese chives[5][6] is a northern Asian species of wild onion native to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, the Russian Far East, and northern China (Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Xinjiang).[3][7][8][9][10] The species is also naturalized in a few places in eastern Europe.[3][11] In its native range, it grows at elevations of 500–2100 m.[12]

Fragrant-flowered Garlic
Chinese chives
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily: Allioideae
Genus: Allium
Species:
A. ramosum
Binomial name
Allium ramosum
L. 1753 not Georgi 1779 nor Jacq. 1781
Synonyms[2][3]

Allium ramosum has clusters of narrow bulbs. Scapes are up to 60 cm tall. Leaves are linear, keeled, shorter than the scape. Umbels have many flowers crowded together. Tepals are white or pale red with a red midvein.[12][13][14]

Uses

The plant is traditionally eaten in northern China and Mongolia. It is known as gogd in Mongolian, and is gathered between May and July, then preserve with salt for the winter.[15] Gogd is then used to season boiled mutton, or stuffed into dumplings.[15] It is also used to treat stomach ailments.[15] The flowers, called soriz, are gathered in late July and August, and salted.[15]

References
  1. Rhodes, L. & Maxted, N. (2016). Allium ramosum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T172189A47600679. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T172189A47600679.en Downloaded on 05 January 2019.
  2. The Plant List
  3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. Sunny Gardens, Allium ramosum, Fragrant-Flowered Garlic
  5. All Things Plant, Photo of the bloom of Chinese Chives (Allium ramosum) posted by zuzu
  6. Plantsw for a Future, Chinese chives, Allium ramosum
  7. Malyschev L.I. & Peschkova , G.A. (eds.) (2001). Flora of Siberia 4: 1-238. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  8. Sheremetova, S.A., Ebel, A.L. & Buko, T.E. (2011). Supplement to the flora of Kemerovo region since 2001 till 2010. Turczaninowia 14(1): 65-74.
  9. Choi, H.J. & Oh, B.U. (2011). A partial revision of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) in Korea and north-eastern China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 167: 153-211.
  10. Veklich,T.N. (2012). Novelties of vascular flora of the Zeyskiy reserve (Amur region). Turczaninowia 15(2): 51-54.
  11. Seregin, A. & Korniak, T. (2013). Allium ramosum L. (Amaryllidaceae), a neglected alien in the European flora and its oldest record from Poland. Phytotaxa 134: 61-64.
  12. Flora of China v 24 p 180 野韭 ye jiu Allium ramosum
  13. Y.P.Hsu. 1987. Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica. Yangling 7(4): 259.
  14. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 296.
  15. Pieroni, Andrea (2005). Prance, Ghillean; Nesbitt, Mark (eds.). The Cultural History of Plants. Routledge. p. 35. ISBN 0415927463.
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