Description
Allium capitellatum is a mid-summer species, which makes its flowers long after the spring-produced leaves have grown, matured and dried off. The scape holding the flowers is very slender and up to 30 cm tall, bearing a compact, rounded umbel of bright pink flowers each of which are held on quite long flower stems within the loose sphere . The exserted anthers of each flower also help to suggest a very open, airy flower head.
This is one of the few bulbous species flowering in late summer like this, at a time when there are very few others (either Allium or bulbs generally) at their peak.
This stock was raised from plants originally found in the Alborz (Alburz, Elburz, Elborz, take your choice) Mountains of Iran though its range extends in the alpine, mountain areas that it both favours and is restricted to, at least as far as east as Pakistan.
