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Wild Garlic
Plant species in the genus ''Allium'' known as wild garlic include the following: *''Allium canadense'', wild onion *'' Allium carinatum'', keeled garlic *'' Allium drummondii'', Drummond's onion *''Allium ochotense'', Siberian onion *'' Allium oleraceum'', field garlic *'' Allium paradoxum'', few-flowered garlic or few-flowered leek *'' Allium triquetrum'', three-cornered leek *''Allium ursinum'', ramsons, native to British and European woodlands *''Allium vineale'', crow garlic *''Allium macrostemon'' (野蒜, ノビル), native to Japanese and East asian woodlands Wild garlic is also a common name for plants in the genus ''Tulbaghia''. See also *Wild onion *Alliaria petiolata ''Alliaria petiolata'', or garlic mustard, is a biennial flowering plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae). It is native to Europe, western and central Asia, north-western Africa, Morocco, Iberia and the British Isles, north to northern S ... {{plant common name Allium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium
''Allium'' is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants that includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives. The generic name ''Allium'' is the Latin word for garlic,Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. (hardback), (paperback). pp 43 and the type species for the genus is '' Allium sativum'' which means "cultivated garlic".''Allium'' In: Index Nominum Genericorum. In: Regnum Vegetabile (see ''External links'' below). Carl Linnaeus first described the genus ''Allium'' in 1753. Some sources refer to Greek ἀλέω (aleo, to avoid) by reason of the smell of garlic. Various ''Allium'' have been cultivated from the earliest times, and about a dozen species are economically important as crops, or garden vegetables, and an increasing number of species are important as ornamental plants. The decision to include a species in the genus ''Allium'' is taxonomically difficult, and spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Canadense
''Allium canadense'', the Canada onion, Canadian garlic, wild garlic, meadow garlic and wild onion is a perennial plant native to eastern North America from Texas to Florida to New Brunswick to Montana. The species is also cultivated in other regions as an ornamental and as a garden culinary herb. The plant is also reportedly naturalized in Cuba. Description ''Allium canadense'' has an edible bulb covered with a dense skin of brown fibers. The plant also has strong onion odor and taste. Crow garlic (''Allium vineale'') is similar, but it has a strong garlic taste. The narrow, grass-like leaves originate near the base of the stem, which is topped by a dome-like cluster of star-shaped, pink or white flowers. These flowers may be partially or entirely replaced by bulblets. When present, the flowers are hermaphroditic (both male and female organs) and are pollinated by American bees (not honeybees) and other insects. It typically flowers in the spring and early summer, from May t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Carinatum
''Allium carinatum'', the keeled garlic or witch's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is widespread across central and southern Europe, with some populations in Asiatic Turkey. It is cultivated in many places as an ornamental and also for its potently aromatic bulbs used as a food flavoring. ;Varieties Numerous botanical names have been coined within the species at the varietal level, but only two are recognized: *''Allium carinatum'' subsp. ''carinatum'' - most of species range *''Allium carinatum'' subsp. ''pulchellum'' (G.Don) Bonnier & Layens - central Europe + Balkans Description ''Allium carinatum'' produces a single small bulb rarely more than 15 mm long, flat leaves, and an umbel up to 60 cm tall of purple to reddish-purple flowers. The flowers are on long pedicels and often nodding (hanging downwards). Distribution ''Allium carinatum'' is considered native to the Mediterranean Region from Spain to Turkey, north to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Drummondii
''Allium drummondii'', also known as Drummond's onion, wild garlic and prairie onion, is a North American species of onion native to the southern Great Plains of North America. It is found in South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico. ''Allium drummondii'' is a bulb-forming perennial. The flowers appear in April and May, in a variety of colors ranging from white to pink. It is common, considered invasive in some regions. Uses This species of ''Allium'' is gathered by Native Americans for its small edible bulbs. These contain a considerable amount of inulin Inulins are a group of naturally occurring polysaccharides produced by many types of plants, industrially most often extracted from chicory. The inulins belong to a class of dietary fibers known as fructans. Inulin is used by some plants as a m ..., a non- reducing sugar that humans cannot digest. Because of this, these onions must be heated for a long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Ochotense
''Allium ochotense'', the Siberian onion, is a primarily East Asian species of wild onion native to northern Japan, Korea, China, and the Russian Far East, as well as on Attu Island in Alaska. Some authors have considered ''A. ochotense'' as belonging to the same species as '' A. victorialis'', but more recent authorities have treated it as a distinct species. Description ''Allium ochotense'' grows to in height, (world encyclopedia, in Japanese), article on ''gyōja ninniku'' by botanist with a strong garlic-like odor, and has "bulbs.. surrounded by a grayish-brown, netlike coating. The leaves are 1–3 glabrous, broadly elliptic,... perianth (flower) whitish-green".Hultén, Eric (1968). Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants. Stanford University Press. p. 307. . The plant is slow-growing, and aside from seed-propagation, "''A. victorialis'' has two vegetative propagation systems; one is tillering and the other is adventitious buds". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Oleraceum
''Allium oleraceum'', the field garlic, is a Eurasian species of wild onion. It is a bulbous perennial that grows wild in dry places, reaching in height. It reproduces by seed, bulbs and by the production of small bulblets in the flower head (similarly to '' Allium vineale''). Unlike ''A. vineale'', it is very rare with ''A. oleraceum'' to find flower-heads containing bulbils only. In addition, the spathe in ''A. oleraceum'' is in two parts.The Reader's Digest Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain ''p.382''. Its specific epithet ''oleraceum'' means "vegetable/herbal" in Latin and is a form of (). Description ''Allium oleraceum'' grows to a height of about . The underground bulb is up to in diameter. The main stem is usually rounded, but is occasionally flattened, and bears two to four leaves and a terminal inflorescence composed of a number of small, stalked, pinkish-brown flowers and sometimes a few bulblets. The papery bracts have long points which often much overtop th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Paradoxum
''Allium paradoxum'', the few-flowered garlic or few-flowered leek, is an Asian species of wild onion in the Amaryllis family. It is native to mountainous regions of Iran, Caucasus, and Turkmenistan and invasive in Europe. Description ''Allium paradoxum'' is a herbaceous perennial growing from a small solitary bulb to about in height. It has much narrower leaves, from wide, than ''Allium ursinum'' but a similar 'garlicky' smell. The flower stem is triangular in section. Most of the flowers are replaced by little bulbs or bulbils and the few (usually only one) proper flowers are white and hermaphrodite. Distribution ''Allium paradoxum'' is native to mountainous regions of Iran, Caucasus, and Turkmenistan. It was introduced to the British Isles in 1823 and was first recorded in the wild there in 1863, near Edinburgh. It is generally a lowland plant, and the highest record for Britain comes from Carter Bar at . It is considered an invasive, non-native species in Europe. In En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Triquetrum
''Allium triquetrum'' is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium'' (onions and garlic) native to the Mediterranean basin. It is known in English as three-cornered leek, and in Australia and New Zealand as onion weed. Both the English name and the specific epithet ''triquetrum'' refer to the three-cornered shape of the flower stalks. Description ''Allium triquetrum'' produces stems tall, which are concavely triangular in cross-section. Each stem produces an umbel inflorescence of 4–19 flowers in January–May in the species' native environment. The tepals are long and white, but with a "strong green line". Each plant has two or three narrow, linear leaves, each up to long. The leaves have a distinct onion smell when crushed. Distribution and habitat ''Allium triquetrum'' is native to south-western Europe, north-western Africa, Madeira and the Canary Islands, where it grows in meadows, woodland clearings, on river banks and roadside verges from sea level to an elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Ursinum
''Allium ursinum'', known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist woodland. It is a wild relative of onion and garlic, all belonging to the same genus, ''Allium''. There are two recognized subspecies: ''A. ursinum'' subsp. ''ursinum'' and ''A. ursinum'' subsp. ''ucrainicum''. Etymology The Latin specific name ''ursinum'' translates to 'bear' and refers to the supposed fondness of the brown bear for the bulbs; folk tales describe the bears consuming them after awakening from hibernation. Another theory is that the "''ursinum''" may refer to Ursa Major, as ''A. ursinum'' was perhaps one of the most northerly distributed ''Allium'' species known to the ancient Greeks, though this hypothesis is disputed. Common names for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Vineale
''Allium vineale'' (wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic or stag's garlic) is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion, native to Europe, northwestern Africa and the Middle East. The species was introduced in Australia and North America, where it has become a noxious weed. Description All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odour. The underground bulb is 1–2 cm diameter, with a fibrous outer layer. The main stem grows to 30–120 cm tall, bearing 2–4 leaves and an apical inflorescence 2–5 cm diameter comprising a number of small bulbils and none to a few flowers, subtended by a basal bract. The leaves are slender hollow tubes, 15–60 cm long and 2–4 mm thick, waxy texture, with a groove along the side of the leaf facing the stem. The inflorescence is a tight umbel surrounded by a membranous bract in bud which withers when the flowers open. Each individual flower is stalked and has a pinkish-green perianth long. There are six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Macrostemon
''Allium macrostemon'' (野蒜, ノビル), Chinese garlic, Japanese garlic or long-stamen onion, is a species of wild onion widespread across much of East Asia. It is known from many parts of China, as well as Japan (incl Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and Primorye. It has been collected from elevations ranging from sea level to 3000 m. ''Allium macrostemon'' produces one round bulb up to 2 cm in diameter. Scape is up to 70 cm tall. Leaves are shorter than the scape, long and hollow, round or triagonal in cross-section. Umbel is large and crowded with many pale red or pale purple flowers. Allium macrostemon is mentioned in Huangdi Neijing as one of the five consumable herbs (五菜) which included mallow ('' Malva verticillata'') (葵), pea leaves (藿), Welsh onion (蔥) and garlic chives ''Allium tuberosum'' (garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Asian chives, Chinese chives, Chinese leek) is a species of plant native to the Chinese province of Shanxi, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tulbaghia
''Tulbaghia'' (wild garlic or society garlic) is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa, belonging to the amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily. The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope. Most species are native to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. As is common to many members of the Allioideae, when their leaves are bruised they produce a distinct garlic smell, hence its common name. The flowers are borne in an umbel. Each flower has six narrow tepals. A characteristic of the genus is that there is a "corona" – a raised crown-like structure – at the centre of the flower. This may be small and scale-like or may be larger, somewhat like the trumpet of a small narcissus. ;Species, search for "Tulbaghia" # '' Tulbaghia acutiloba'' Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa # '' Tulbaghia aequinoct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
