WorldFloraDB - Nothoscordum gracile

Characteristics

An onion family herb. It is a bulb plant. It keeps growing from year to year. It is 15-60 cm high. The bulb is 12-23 mm across. The leaves are narrow and 14-56 cm long by 2-70 mm wide. The flowers are white with red or pink veins.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.45

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in sandy and sandy clay soils. In Argentina it grows from sea level to 1,000 m above sea level. Tasmanian Herbarium.

More

Sandy roadsides, woods and cultivated ground in southeastern N. America.

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Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
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Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The plant is used as a garlic to season smoked sausage.

Uses	environmental use
Edible	bulbs leaves roots
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-18
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-