Rosy Garlic
Rosy Garlic, Abbotbury, Dorset
Flower umbel, papery bracts, bulbils
6 stamens and single style
Side view and bracts
Immature bulbils covered with bracts
Mature bulbils
Narrow leaves
Allium roseum
Amaryllidaceae
May to June
It is found in the South, Southwest and East Anglia, and
thinly scattered elsewhere.
See the BSBI distribution map for Rosy Garlic
It is a neophyte which has been grown in England since
the 1750s, and known in the wild since the 1830s.
It grows on waste ground, woodland, hedge banks and by
roads, often on the coast.
It is on the increase in the Southwest.
Rosy Garlic is an attractive, bulbous, perennial herb,
growing up to 75cm.
Flowers are in an umbel and up to 12mm across.
They are bell-shaped and dark pink fading to nearly
white.
The yellow stamens are shorter than the petals.
Bulbils are at the base of the umbel and are initially
covered in papery bracts.
When mature, they are deep red.
Leaves are narrow, dark green and much shorter than
the flower stems.
The flowers shown here form extensive patches in
rough ground between a road and Chesil beach.
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Rosy Garlic, Abbotbury, Dorset
Flower umbel, papery bracts, bulbils
6 stamens and single style
Side view and bracts
Immature bulbils covered with bracts
Mature bulbils
Narrow leaves
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