Allium strictum

The stiffness leek (Allium strictum ), also called stiff - leek, is a species of the genus Allium (Allium ) in the subfamily of the leek plants ( Allioideae ).

Description

The Stiff leek is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of 15 to 40 cm. The onion is very slim, the outer shells are netzfaserig and it has a diameter of 0.5 to 0.8 cm. The leaves are more or less flat, narrow ribbon-like, on top of something rinnig and 3-5 mm wide.

In doldigen inflorescence no bulbils are formed; he is enveloped by a single bract. The flower stems are one to two times as long as the bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are triple. The six colored bracts are relatively light purple. The stamens are about the crown out. The stamens are covered with short and blunt teeth.

Occurrence and risk

The stiffness leek occurs in Central Europe and Asia.

It grows on rocky corridors and Xerothermrasen on dry, base-rich, nutrient-poor stone and clay soils.

In Germany he is according to § 20a paragraph 5 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act specially protected and is guided in the red list of the ferns and flowering plants in Germany as endangered.