Allium acuminatum

Family: Liliaceae
Common Name: tapertip onion
Symbol: ALAC4
Description: Perennial. Leaves 2-3, basally sheathing, solid, 7-30 cm - 1-3 mm, margins entire. Scape erect, solid, terete, 10-35 cm - 1-3 mm. Umbel persistent, erect, loose, 10-40-flowered, hemispheric. Flowers 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, apex acuminate, outer tepal longer and wider than inner, spreading to recurved at tip, inner tepal with strongly recurved tips