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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Nothoscordum gracile
|accepted_authority=(Dryander) Stearn
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Taxon
|place=35: 335. 1986
|year=1986
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Allium gracile
|authority=Dryander
|rank=species
|publication_title=in W. Aiton, Hort. Kew.
|publication_place=1: 429. 1789
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Allium fragrans
|authority=Ventenat
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nothoscordum fragrans
|authority=(Ventenat) Kunth
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Liliaceae;Nothoscordum;Nothoscordum gracile
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Liliaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nothoscordum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nothoscordum gracile]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 277
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Bulbs </b>ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm diam.; outer coats brown; bulblets 10–20+. <b>Scapes</b> 1–2, terete, 30–60 cm × 2–3 mm. <b>Leaves</b> 2–9, sheaths enveloping neck of bulb, hyaline, reduced apically; blade linear, 20–40(–50) cm × 4–12 mm, margins entire. <b>Umbel</b> 10–20-flowered, often asymmetrical, to 5 cm diam.; bracts persistent, 2, 1.2–2 cm × 5–8 mm, bases fused, imbricate, margins scarious. <b>Flowers</b> fragrant; tepals white adaxially with pink midvein and greenish bases, oblanceolate, 9–15 × 4 mm, apex obtuse; filaments simple, adnate to tepals, 7–10 mm; anthers dark brown; ovary crestless; style persistent in fruit, ± equaling stamens; stigma unlobed, equaling perianth; pedicel erect to spreading, 2–6 cm, unequal. <b>Capsules</b> obovoid, ca. 6–7 × 6–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 8–12 per locule.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Dec.
|habitat=Roadsides, waste places
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>There is considerable controversy over the correct epithet. Based on the information available, the authors feel that <i>Nothoscordum</i> borbonicum Kunth is a misapplied name and that the correct name is <i>Nothoscordum gracile</i>.</p><!--
--><p>In the flora area, <i>Nothoscordum gracile</i> is an escape from cultivation.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ravenna1991a
|text=Ravenna, P. 1991. Nothoscordum gracile and N. borbonicum (Alliaceae). Taxon 40: 485–487.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=small1928a
|text=Small, J. K. 1928. Nothoscordum fragrans. Addisonia 33: plate 433.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=stearn1986a
|text=Stearn, W. T. 1986. Nothoscordum gracile, the correct name of N. fragrans and N. inodorum of authors (Alliaceae). Taxon 35: 335–338.
}}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Nothoscordum gracile
|authority=(Dryander) Stearn
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Allium fragrans;Nothoscordum fragrans
|basionyms=Allium gracile
|family=Liliaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Dec.
|habitat=Roadsides, waste places
|elevation=0–100 m
|distribution=Ala.;Calif.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;S.C.;South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=ravenna1991a;small1928a;stearn1986a
|publication title=Taxon
|publication year=1986
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_527.xml
|genus=Nothoscordum
|species=Nothoscordum gracile
}}<!--

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