Allium chrysocephalum Regel

Bulb solitary, cylindric, sometimes thickened at base, 0.5--1 cm in diam.; tunic pale brown to brown, thinly leathery, apex laciniate. Leaves linear to broadly so, slightly falcate, usually ca. 1/2 as long as or rarely subequaling scape, 3--10 mm wide, flat. Scape 5--25 cm, terete, covered with leaf sheaths only at base. Spathe 2- or 3-valved, persistent. Umbel hemispheric to globose, densely many flowered. Pedicels subequaling to slightly longer than perianth, ebracteolate. Perianth bright yellow; outer segments oblong-ovate, boat-shaped, 5.5--6.5 × 2.2--3 mm; inner ones oblong-lanceolate, 7--8 × 2--2.7 mm, apex recurved. Filaments subulate, ca. 2/3 as long as inner perianth segments, connate at base and adnate to perianth segments for ca. 1 mm. Ovary ovoid to ovoid-globose, with concave nectaries at base. Style not exserted. Fl. and fr. Jul--Sep.

Gansu, Qinghai, NW Sichuan.

* Damp slopes, meadows; 3400--4800 m.

Allium chrysocephalum is a plant species native to China, in the provinces Gansu, Qinghai, and Sichuan. It grows at elevations of 3400–4800 m.

Allium chrysocephalum produces narrow cylindrical bulbs about 10 mm in diameter. Scapes are up to 25 cm long, round in cross-section. Leaves are flat, up to 10 mm across, about half the length of the scapes. Flowers are bright yellow.