Allium sharsmithiae
Species of flowering plant
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Allium sharsmithiae, called the Mount Hamilton onion or Helen Sharsmith's onion, is a rare species of wild onion endemic to a small region in California. It is found on serpentine soils in the vicinity of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range south of San Francisco Bay in Santa Clara, Alameda and Stanislaus Counties.[2][3][4]
| Allium sharsmithiae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Allioideae |
| Genus: | Allium |
| Species: | A. sharsmithiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Allium sharsmithiae (Ownbey & Aase ex Traub) McNeal | |
| SynonymsTropicos, Allium fimbriatum var. sharsmithiae Ownbey & Aase ex Traub | |
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