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§1 Plant

Allium cernuum Roth var. cernuum

vernacular nodding onion — variety · Liliaceae


USDA
ALCEC2
GBIF
2856745 syn.
Rank
variety
nodding onion (Allium cernuum var. cernuum)
Platephotograph · Grace Chovil source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Allium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 334 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 334 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 334 counties across 17 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 2 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 8 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 7 N
Illinois view state ↗ 14 N
Indiana view state ↗ 36 N
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 28 N
Michigan view state ↗ 10 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 62 N
New York view state ↗ 7 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 22 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 37 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 26 N
Virginia view state ↗ 42 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 29 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ALCEC2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2856745 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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