Latin name: Allium praecox Brandegee
  Pronunciation: AL-ee-um PREE-kox

  Common name: Early onion
  Family: Alliaceae (Onion)
  Habitat: Shaded slopes and canyons to 2500',
  chaparral, southern oak woodland, Baja to San
  Bernardino and east LA Counties, Channel Ids

  Blooming period: March to April
  Click for Latin name derivations:  1) Allium
  2) praecox
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