Allium przewalskianum Regel

Bulbs clustered, narrowly ovoid-cylindric, 0.5--1 cm in diam., sometimes covered with common tunic; tunic red, rarely light brown, reticulate. Leaves shorter or slightly longer than scape, 0.5--1.5 mm wide, semiterete to terete, 4-or 5-angled. Scape 10--40 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 1-valved, persistent; beak usually equaling limb. Umbel hemispheric to globose, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequal, 2--3 × as long as perianth, ebracteolate, rarely a few bracteolate. Perianth pale red to dark purple; outer segments ovate to narrowly so, 3--6 × 1.5--2.5 mm; inner ones oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 4--6.5 × 1.5--2.5 mm. Filaments equal, 1.5--2 × as long as perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments; outer ones subulate; inner ones broadened for 1/3--1/2 their length, 1-toothed on each side. Ovary globose, without concave nectaries at base. Style much longer than ovary, exserted. Fl. and fr. Jun--Sep. 2 n = 32*.

It is a temperate plant. It grows in scrub and on dry slopes and rock crevices between 2000-4800 m altitude in N China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

The leaves are used instead of onion. They are eaten in vegetable curry.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.