Allium orientale Boiss.

An onion family plant. A bulb plant. It grows to 30 cm high. The bulbs are 15 mm across. The leaves are not more than 2.5 cm wide. The flowers are white or pale lilac with a green mid vein in the tepals. The ovary is dark blackish-green. It opens in a star shape. It occurs in half round heads.

Limestone hills and slopes, rocky places, fields and vineyards, 600-1,870 metres in Turkey. Dry riverbeds, on dry hills, and in fields in hard soils, seeming to have a preference for sandy, calcareous, and loamy soil types.

The bulbs are eaten raw or cooked. The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. The flowers are used raw.

Plants can be grown from seed or by dividing the clumps.