Allium jacquemontii Kunth

Bulb solitary, ovoid, ca. 1 cm in diam.; tunic lilac-brown to brown-black, scarious. Leaves 2(or 3), 0.7--1.5 mm wide, semiterete, fistulose, margin glabrous. Scape (15--)25--40 cm, slender, terete. Spathe 2-valved, persistent; beak very short. Umbel hemispheric, many flowered. Pedicels ca. 3 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth pale red to pale purple; segments with darker midvein, elliptic-lanceolate, 4.5--5 × 2--2.5 mm, apex acute. Filaments triangular, 1/2--2/3 as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments, entire; inner ones 1.5--2 × as wide as outer. Ovary globose, without concave nectaries. Style not exserted. Fl. Jul.

It is a temperate plant. It grows above 2,500 m in cold arid areas in India. In western China it grows on high plateaus and gravelly places between 4,200-4,600 m above sea level.

It is used in chutney and for flavouring.

Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.