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| Flower Colors: | blue |
Allium cyaneum Regel is a dwarf, mid to late summer flowering blue allium from China. It is extremely variable, but typically a small plant 6" or less in height, with fine grassy foliage, and small pendant to semi-erect sprays of starry blue flowers, variable in color from pale grayish blue to deep cobalt blue. Albino forms are known but rare. The first three photos from iNaturalist were taken by Leoš Smutný in China in July and shared under a CC BY-NC license. The fourth photograph was taken by Rimmer de Vries who comments: "this is typically offered as an impostor for Allium beesianum, but has super fine grass-like foliage, is shorter, blooms later and the stamens extend beyond the tepals". The last image is a drawing by Mark McDonough.
