Talk:Allium burdickii

Is this really a species?

The descriptions by Burdick quoted here (see the letters reproduced at the bottom of the page) contradict the Flora of North America entry. Burdick says it has longer petioles, purple in colour, the FNA says "scarcely petiolate or less strongly so than in var. tricoccum, sheaths and petioles not anthocyanous." It's not possible to integrate these two descriptions; whatever Burdick originally mean by his "new form" it can't be the same as the variety in FNA; indeed using the FNA to identify the two forms he talks about would suggest that what Burdick calls the "typical form" is var. burdickii and what he calls the "new form" is var. tricoccum. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:11, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

See also User talk:Joseph Laferriere#Allium burdickii. Given that all the major secondary sources (FNA, Tropicos, TPL and WCSP) don't recognize this species, there's no case for doing so here. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:03, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I assume Burdick was detailing features of the nominotypical variety in those letters. Both taxa grow in my haunts. They're pretty different! —Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 01:52, 7 November 2018 (UTC)