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|accepted_name=Asphodelus fistulosus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 309. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Onion-weed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Asphodelus;Asphodelus fistulosus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Asphodelus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Asphodelus fistulosus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 217, 219
|treatment_page=page 218
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annuals or short-lived perennials; root crowns thickened with many fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> branched or unbranched, 20–70 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 5–35 cm × 2–4 mm; blade cylindrical or slightly flattened adaxially, hollow, glabrous except on margins. <b>Inflorescences</b> simple racemes to open panicles with ascending branches, 15–70 cm; bracts white, 4–7 mm. <b>Flowers</b> diurnal, closing in evening and during cloudy weather; tepals white to pale pink, oblong, obtuse, 5–12 × 2–3 mm, vein dark pink or brown; longest stamens equaling style. <b>Capsules</b> 5–7 mm, transversely wrinkled. <b>Seeds</b> 3–4 mm, rugose. <b>2n</b> = 28, 56.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, waste places
|elevation=0–1400 m
|distribution=Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;sw Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;widely naturalized (Australia;Mexico;New Zealand);expected elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Asphodelus fistulosus has become a noxious weed in California and in other places with Mediterranean climates worldwide.</p>
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name=Asphodelus fistulosus
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, waste places
|elevation=0–1400 m
|distribution=Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;sw Europe;sw Asia;n Africa;widely naturalized (Australia;Mexico;New Zealand);expected elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Asphodelus
|species=Asphodelus fistulosus
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