Seasonal Wild Flowers

Crow Garlic

Allium vineale

Wild Onion

Amaryllidaceae

June to July

It is found mainly in the southern regions and is scattered

elsewhere.

See the BSBI distribution map for Crow Garlic

It grows in grassland and hedgerows, by roads and

pathways, and on cultivated ground.

It used to be a serious pest of cultivated ground.

Crow Garlic is a native, persistent, bulbous, perennial,

growing up to 1.2m.

The flowerhead is made up of 3 smaller flower heads,

each up to 2cm.

It usually consisting only of bulbils, as is the case here,

but sometimes there are also offset flowers.

Bulbils are shiny purple.

Leaves are cylindrical, erect along the stem, and then

bending down.

Crow Garlic in rough grass, Portland Bill

Flower (bulbil) head - mid July

Imature flower bud - early June

Flower (bulbil) head - late June

Flowerhead - early July

Scale

Stem and leaves

Tubular leaf

Bulb