Family: bulbous plants (Alliaceae)
Bloom time: July–September
Size: 20–60 cm
Habitat: wet and marshy meadows and lakeshore banks
The erect stem of fringed onion (Allium angulosum) is sharply three-lobed. Thread-like leaves are more or less basal and arise at the same height. Fresh leaves, which smell of garlic, are distinctly ridged on the underside. In the soil lie elongated bulbs attached to a short root. Numerous pedicellate six-petaled flowers are grouped in a flat, umbrella-shaped inflorescence. For the flowers of fringed onion, it is characteristic that the stamens are about as long as the pink petals of the perianth. It grows on moist soils in sunny positions. It thrives in habitats particularly sensitive to human disturbances, therefore we also count it among endangered plant species here.
In Slovenia it is quite rare; it is found here and there in western and central Slovenia and in the eastern part of the country.
