Allium humile

I call Allium humile (syn A. nivale) the snowy onion, and is my favourite spring flowering Allium!  I saw it flowering first in the Tromsø Botanical Garden and was bowled over by this view:

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It is found in the wild on slopes at high elevations (4000-4500m) in China, India; Nepal and Pakistan. Now flowering in my garden! Definitely not suffering from (low) altitude sickness ;)

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