Allium tanguticum 'Summer Beauty', forms a clump 12 inches wide. It blooms in mid-summer with pale lavender pink, 2-inch globes that sit atop 24-inch stems. It prefers well-drained, loamy soil in full sun. Summer Beauty is a butterfly and honeybee magnet.

Summer Beauty ornamental globe onion is sometimes referred to in the literature as Summer Beauty lavender globe lily—but it is not a lily at all.