Editing Chives (section)

===Range===
Chives have a wide natural range across much of the Northern Hemisphere.<ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=528823-1 |title=''Allium schoenoprasum'' L. |access-date=22 September 2024}}</ref>

In Asia it is native from the [[Ural Mountains]] in Russia to [[Kamchatka]] in the far east.<ref name="POWO" /> It grows natively in the Korean peninsula, but only the islands of [[Hokkaido]] and [[Honshu]] in Japan.<ref name="WorldPlants">{{cite web |last1=Hassler |first1=Michael |title=Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. Version 24.9 |url=https://www.worldplants.de/ |website=World Plants |access-date=22 September 2024 |date=19 September 2024}}</ref> Likewise its natural range in China only extends to [[Xinjiang]] and [[Inner Mongolia]], though it is also found in adjacent [[Mongolia]]. It is native to all the nations of the [[Caucasus]]. However, in [[Central Asia]] it is only found in [[Kazakhstan]] and [[Kyrgyzstan]]. To the south its range also extends to [[Afghanistan]], [[Iran]], [[Iraq]], [[Pakistan]], and the [[Western Himalayas]] in India.<ref name="POWO" />

It is native to all parts of Europe with the exception of [[Sicily]], [[Sardinia]], the island of [[Cyprus (island)|Cyprus]], [[Iceland]], [[Crimea]], and [[Hungary]] and other offshore islands. It also is not native to Belgium and Ireland, but it grows there as an introduced plant.<ref name="POWO" />

In North America it is native to Alaska and almost every province of Canada, but has been introduced to the island of [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]]. In the United States the certain native range in the lower 48 is in two separated areas. In the west its range is in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. In the east it extends from Minnesota, eastward through Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Then northward into New York and all of [[New England]].<ref name="POWO" /> The [[Plants of the World Online]] database lists it as introduced to Illinois and Maryland and the USDA [[Natural Resources Conservation Service]] PLANTS database additionally lists it as growing in Nevada, Utah, Missouri, and Virginia without information on if it is native or introduced to those states.<ref name="POWO" /><ref name="USDA">{{cite usda plants|symbol=ALSC |title=Allium schoenoprasum |date=22 September 2024}}</ref>

In other areas of the Americas chives grow as an introduced plant in Mexico, [[Honduras]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Cuba]], [[Jamaica]], [[Hispaniola]], [[Trinidad]], [[Colombia]], [[Bolivia]], and the southern part of Argentina in [[Tierra del Fuego]].<ref name="WorldPlants" />