Nothoscordum bivalve(L.) Britton

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WFO wfo-0000699261 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by David Weisenbeck
fig. a David Weisenbeck, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-06 / obs. 195748522
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Cazody
fig. b Cazody, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193212167
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. c Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205343048
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. d Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193243271
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. e Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191197653
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. f Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191896538
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. g Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190969172
Nothoscordum bivalve, photographed by Robert Hoard
fig. h Robert Hoard, CC0 1.0 / obs. 191398074

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 3,650 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 3,650 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 42 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allium bivalve (L.) Kuntze
  • Allium bivalve var. bangii Kuntze
  • Allium bivalve var. flavescens (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Allium bivalve var. sellowianum (Kunth) Kuntze
  • Allium bivalve var. striatum (Jacq.) Kuntze
  • Allium canadense Michx.
  • Allium flavescens Poepp. ex Kunth
  • Allium geminatum Raf.
  • Allium ornithogaloides Walter
  • Allium sellovianum (Kunth) Regel
  • Allium striatellum Lindl.
  • Allium striatellum var. nanum Griseb.
  • Allium striatum Jacq.
  • Allium subbiflorum Colla
  • Brodiaea aurea Benth. & Hook.f.
  • Brodiaea berteroi (Kunth) Fuentes
  • Brodiaea subbiflora Baker
  • Geboscon bivalve (L.) House
  • Geboscon geminatum (Raf.) Raf.
  • Geboscon striatum (Jacq.) Raf.
  • Hookera subbiflora Kuntze
  • Milla subbiflora (Colla) Baker
  • Nothoscordum flavescens Kunth
  • Nothoscordum gramineum (Sims) P.Beauv.

and 18 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.