Wild garlic
Allium vineale L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 8 cm
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Wild onion, Crow garlic, Stag's garlic
Formerly Allium assimile, Allium compactum, Allium laxiflorum, Allium littoreum, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe, Medit. to N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 5 cm to 10 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- puerro silvestre, ajicuervo, ajo de cigüeña
- Welsh
- Craf y geifr, Craf gwyllt, Craf y meysydd
- Old English
- Crāwlēac, Crāƿlēac
- Arabic
- ثوم كرمي
- Azerbaijani
- Üzüməbənzər soğan
- Catalan
- All de vinya
- Czech
- česnek viničný
- Danish
- Almindelig Sandløg, Sand-Løg
- German
- Weinberg-Lauch, Weinberglauch, Weinbergs-Lauch
- Estonian
- Nurmlauk
- Basque
- Sorgin-baratxuri
- Finnish
- hietalaukka
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Allium vineale (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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