Allium altaicum is a species of onion native to Asiatic Russia (Altay, Buryatiya, Zabaykalsky Krai, Irkutsk, Tuva, Amur Oblast), Mongolia, Kazakhstan and northern China (Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Xinjiang). Description Allium altaicum produces narrowly egg-shaped bulbs up to in diameter. Scape is round in cross-section, up to tall. Leaves are round, up to long. Flowers are pale yellow, up to across. Ovary is egg-shaped; stamens longer than the tepals. References altaicum Onions Flora of temperate Asia Plants described in 1773 Taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas