Autumn Onion
Allium stellatumnative · Central Texas
Autumn Onion is a perennial wildflower native to Central Texas that grows 1–2 ft tall and 2 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and medium water, and handles clay soil. Blooms white, pink and purple in Jan–Dec. Good for bees and butterflies.
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The facts
4 sources- Type
- Perennial wildflower
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Medium
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Bloom
- Jan–Dec · white, pink, purple
- Foliage
- Deciduous or dies back in winter
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on calcareous, clay, gravelly, limestone, moist, rocky
- Wildlife
- Supports bees and butterflies
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Cross Timber
1 occurrence record in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.