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{{Speciesbox
| name = German garlic
| image = Allium_senescens.jpg
| taxon = Allium senescens
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<ref name=trop> ''Allium senescens'' was first described and published in ''[[Species Plantarum]]'' 1: 299-300. 1753. {{ cite web |url=http://tropicos.org/Name/18400100 |title=Name - ''Allium senescens'' L. |work=Tropicos |publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]] |location=[[Saint Louis, Missouri]] |accessdate=May 22, 2011}}</ref>
| subdivision =
* ''A. s.'' subsp. ''montanum''
* ''A. s.'' subsp. ''senescens''
: <sup>List source:</sup> <ref name=grin> {{ cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2378 |title=''Allium senescens'' information from NPGS/GRIN |author=[[Germplasm Resources Information Network|GRIN]] |work=Taxonomy for Plants |publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture|USDA]], [[Agricultural Research Service|ARS]], National Genetic Resources Program |location=National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, [[Beltsville, Maryland]] |date=June 11, 2009 |accessdate=May 22, 2011}}</ref>
}}

'''''Allium senescens''''', commonly called '''aging chive''',<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf|title=English Names for Korean Native Plants|publisher=[[Korea National Arboretum]]|year=2015|isbn=978-89-97450-98-5|location=Pocheon|pages=348|access-date=17 December 2016|via=[[Korea Forest Service]]}}</ref> '''German garlic''', or '''broadleaf chives''',<ref name=grin/> is a [[perennial]] plant in the genus ''[[Allium]]''.

== Description ==
It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and grows to between 8" and 40" in height. The foliage is thin, and strap like.

==Taxonomy==
Two subspecies have been named:<ref name=grin/>
*[[Allium senescens subsp. glaucum|''Allium senescens'' subsp. ''glaucum'']]
*''Allium senescens'' subsp. ''senescens''

== Distribution ==
''Allium senescens'' is indigenous to middle, eastern, southeastern, and southwestern [[Europe]] (in [[Austria]], [[Belarus]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Estonia]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Hungary]], [[Italy]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Slovakia]], [[Spain]], [[Switzerland]], and the former [[Yugoslavia]]); [[Eurasia]] (in [[Ukraine]] and much of [[Russian Federation|Russia]], including [[Siberia]], [[Amur Oblast|Amur]], [[Buryatia]], [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]], [[Gorno-Altay]], [[Irkutsk]], [[Krasnoyarsk]], [[Primorsky Krai]], and [[Tuva]]); and [[Asia]] (in [[Kazakhstan]], [[Korea]], [[Mongolia]] and [[China]], including the provinces of [[Hebei]], [[Heilongjiang]], [[Jilin]], [[Liaoning]], [[Nei Monggol]], and northern [[Xinjiang]]).<ref name=grin/> Elsewhere it is also deliberately planted and cultivated for garden use.<ref name=grin/>

== Uses ==
''Allium senescens'' is grown for its ornamental and as a gene source because of its tertiary genetic relationship to ''[[Allium cepa|A. cepa]]'' (the common onion).<ref name=grin/>

== References ==
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{{wikispecies|Allium senescens}}
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== External links ==
* [http://www.robsplants.com/plants/AlliuSenes.php Rob's plants: Allium senescens]
* [http://www.finegardening.com/plantguide/allium-senescens-ornamental-onion.aspx Fine gardening: Allium senescens]

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[[Category:Allium|senescens]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1753]]
[[Category:Asparagales of Southwestern Europe]]
[[Category:Flora of Austria]]
[[Category:Flora of Belarus]]
[[Category:Flora of Bulgaria]]
[[Category:Flora of Hebei]]
[[Category:Flora of Heilongjiang]]
[[Category:Flora of Jilin]]
[[Category:Flora of Liaoning]]
[[Category:Flora of Inner Mongolia]]
[[Category:Flora of Xinjiang]]
[[Category:Flora of Croatia]]
[[Category:Flora of the Czech Republic]]
[[Category:Flora of Estonia]]
[[Category:Flora of Germany]]
[[Category:Flora of Hungary]]
[[Category:Flora of Italy]]
[[Category:Flora of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Flora of Korea]]
[[Category:Flora of Kosovo]]
[[Category:Flora of Latvia]]
[[Category:Flora of Lithuania]]
[[Category:Flora of the Republic of Macedonia]]
[[Category:Flora of Mongolia]]
[[Category:Flora of Montenegro]]
[[Category:Flora of Poland]]
[[Category:Flora of Romania]]
[[Category:Flora of Russia]]
[[Category:Flora of Serbia]]
[[Category:Flora of Siberia]]
[[Category:Flora of Slovakia]]
[[Category:Flora of Spain]]
[[Category:Flora of Switzerland]]
[[Category:Flora of Ukraine]]
[[Category:Garden plants]]

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