Seasonal Wild Flowers

Three-cornered Garlic

Allium triquetrum

Amaryllidaceae

White Bluebell

February to June

It is found mainly in the far South, especially Devon and

Cornwall,

and is scattered elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Three-cornered Garlic

It has been naturalised for 150 years on damp roadsides,

hedge banks, edges of fields and waste ground.

Three-cornered Garlic is a bulbous perennial herb, that

smells of garlic.

The white, bell-shaped flowers have green stripes.

Stems are triangular.

Its seeds are spread by ants.

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On a hedge bank - Devon

Flower bells from below

Petals with green veins, 6 stamens and 3-lobed stigma

Triangular stem