Allium bidentatum

Allium bidentatum is an Asian species of plant in the amaryllis family. It is native to Mongolia, Russia (Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Krasnoyarsk, Primorye), Kazakhstan, and northern China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang ). It grows in well-lit places, sometimes in saline soil.^[2]

Allium bidentatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Genus:	Allium
Subgenus:	A. subg. Rhizirideum
Species:	A. bidentatum
Binomial name
Allium bidentatum Fisch. ex Prokh. & Ikonn.-Gal.
Synonyms[1]
Allium bidentatum var. andaense Q.S.Sun Allium edentatum Y.P.Hsu Allium omiostema Airy Shaw Allium polyrhizum var. potaninii Regel

Allium bidentatum produces very narrow cylindrical bulbs rarely more than 4 mm across. Scape is round in cross-section, up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are more or less round in cross-section, up to 15 cm long. Umbel is hemispherical, with red or red-violet flowers.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Two varieties are recognized.^[7]

• Allium bidentatum var. bidentatum - most of species range
• Allium bidentatum var. qinggouense Tolgor & Y.T.Zhao - Inner Mongolia