Flower; Cabanas de Tavira, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer
Flower; Alfajarín, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain; 3/2014 © Jörn Germer
Habit; Cabanas de Tavira, Algarve, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer
Habit; Alfajarín, Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain; 3/2014 © Jörn Germer
Identifier: 1097 Date of entry: 16.06.2009 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: Onionweed
German: Röhrige Affodill
Kingdom: Plantae (2629)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2532)
Class: Liliopsida (388)
Order: Liliales (109)
Family: Liliaceae (35)(family description)
Genus: Asphodelus (2)
Epithet: fistulosus L. (1)
fistulosus => tubular, hollow throughout as the leaf of an onion, or full of holes
Climate: sub-tropical
Habitat: mesophytic
Habit: herb
Flower colour: white
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