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Wild garlic

Allium ursinum

Wild garlic

About

Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, wild cowleek, ramsons, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek 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, which belong to the same genus as wild garlic, Allium.

Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Allium ursinum
Slug
allium-ursinum
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Allium
Species
ursinum
Wikidata QID
Q130882
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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