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Allium tribracteatum is a species of wild onion known by the common name threebract onion. It is endemictoCalifornia, where it is known only from the slopes of the Sierra NevadainTuolumne and Calaveras Counties. This is a small onion plant producing a stem only a few centimeters long from an oval-shaped bulb. There are two leaves which are usually much longer than the stem. The inflorescence contains up to 30 petite white to purple flowers, each less than a centimeter long.
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