Drumstick Allium
Allium sphaerocephalon
Amaryllidaceae
Growth habit
Geophyte
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Central and Southern Europe to Western Asia
Location
Source of plant
Milaeger's Gardens, The Daffodil Mart
Description
Plants reach 30-80 cm in flower with 3-5 semi-terete, broadly grooved, 3 mm wide leaves carried on the lower 1/3 of the flower stalk. Flowers purple to carmine red, campanulate, held in 3 cm diameter, globose, dense, many-flowered umbels in July and August.
USDA Hardiness Zone
5