Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Asparagales > Amaryllidaceae > Allium > Allium schoenoprasumAllium schoenoprasum (wild chives)Synonyms: Allium acutum; Allium alpinum; Allium broteri; Allium broteroi; Allium buhseanum; Allium carneum (heterotypic); Allium coloratum (heterotypic); Allium foliosum (homotypic); Allium glaucum (heterotypic); Allium gredense; Allium idzuense; Allium lusitanicum (heterotypic); Allium montanum (heterotypic); Allium palustre (homotypic); Allium punctulatum; Allium purpurascens; Allium raddeanum; Allium reflexum (heterotypic); Allium riparium; Allium roseum (heterotypic); Allium schmitzii var. duriminium; Allium schoenoprasum alpinum; Allium schoenoprasum euschoenoprasum; Allium schoenoprasum f. albiflorum; Allium schoenoprasum f. pumilum; Allium schoenoprasum f. purpuratum; Allium schoenoprasum f. sibiricum; Allium schoenoprasum gredense; Allium schoenoprasum latiorifolium; Allium schoenoprasum orosiae; Allium schoenoprasum pumilum; Allium schoenoprasum riparium; Allium schoenoprasum schoenoprasum; Allium schoenoprasum sibiricum; Allium schoenoprasum var. albidum; Allium schoenoprasum var. albiflorum; Allium schoenoprasum var. alpinum; Allium schoenoprasum var. alvarense; Allium schoenoprasum var. brevispathum; Allium schoenoprasum var. broteri; Allium schoenoprasum var. broteroi; Allium schoenoprasum var. buhseanum; Allium schoenoprasum var. caespitans; Allium schoenoprasum var. duriminium; Allium schoenoprasum var. foliosum; Allium schoenoprasum var. gredense; Allium schoenoprasum var. idzuense; Allium schoenoprasum var. latiorifolium; Allium schoenoprasum var. laurentianum; Allium schoenoprasum var. litorale; Allium schoenoprasum var. lusitanicum; Allium schoenoprasum var. pumilum; Allium schoenoprasum var. riparium; Allium schoenoprasum var. schoenoprasoides; Allium schoenoprasum var. schoenoprasum; Allium schoenoprasum var. sibiricum; Allium schoenoprasum var. vulgare; Allium schoenoprasum vulgare; Allium scorodoprasum var. alvarense; Allium sibiricum; Allium sibiricum var. schoenoprasoides; Allium tenuifolium (heterotypic); Allium ubinicum; Allium udinicum; Ascalonicum schoenoprasum (homotypic); Cepa schoenoprasa (homotypic); Cepa tenuifolia; Porrum schoenoprasum (homotypic); Porrum sibiricum; Schoenissa rosea; Schoenissa schoenoprasa; Schoenoprasum vulgare (homotypic) Chives is the common name of Allium schoenoprasum, an edible species of the Allium genus. A perennial plant, it is widespread in nature across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. A. schoenoprasum is the only species of Allium native to both the New and the Old Worlds. The name of the species derives from the Greek σχοίνος, skhoínos (sedge) and πράσον, práson (leek). Its English name, chives, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion. |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Augsdaugava |
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129298 |
Latvia |
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Avon Gorge Woodlands |
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376 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Bassegi Zapovednik |
Ia |
93739 |
Perm, Russia |
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Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
218515 |
Belarus |
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Berchtesgaden Alps National Park |
II |
51433 |
Germany |
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Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast |
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160731 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Burnham Beeches |
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946 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Cairngorms |
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142543 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve |
V |
619089 |
Jilin, China |
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Dartmoor |
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57244 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Firth of Tay & Eden Estuary |
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38085 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Flusslandschaft Elbe Biosphere Reserve |
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925242 |
Germany |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Isle Royale Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
571799 |
Michigan, United States |
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Katunsky Biosphere Reserve |
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393162 |
Altai, Russia |
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Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
692723 |
Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia |
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Kobuk Valley National Park |
Ib |
1576553 |
Alaska, United States |
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KORYFES OROUS SMOLIKAS |
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49361 |
Greece |
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KORYFES OROUS VORA |
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99917 |
Greece |
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Kronotskiy Biosphere Reserve |
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361480 |
Russia |
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Limestone Coast of South West Wales/ Arfordir Calchfaen de Orllewin Cymru |
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3940 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Lizard Point |
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34565 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Magadansky Zapovednik |
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2332834 |
Russia |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay Pavements |
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6449 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Noatak Biosphere Reserve |
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7500143 |
Alaska, United States |
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North Pennine Moors |
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254789 |
England, United Kingdom |
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OROS TYMFRISTOS (VELOUCHI) |
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8421 |
Greece |
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OROS VORAS |
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196334 |
Greece |
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Ostrov Vrangelya (Wrangel Island) Zapovednik Nature Monument |
III |
180 |
Russia |
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Palava Protected Landscape Area |
V |
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Czech Republic |
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Piejura |
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10663 |
Latvia |
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Salisbury Plain |
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52975 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sayano-Shushenskiy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
964620 |
Krasnoyarsk, Russia |
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Sefton Coast |
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11278 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Solway Firth |
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107829 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Taimyrsky Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
4403240 |
Taimyr, Russia |
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Thursley, Ash, Pirbright and Chobham |
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12696 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Woodland Caribou Provincial Wilderness Park Provincial Park |
II |
1072124 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287. ♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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