The inflorescence of allium vineale is a mixture of flowers and bulbils. Plants with only bulbils are sometimes considered as var compactum.
Common names:
Wild onion, crow garlic
Family:
Scientific name:
Allium vineale
Main flower color:
Range:
England (especially the south), Wales, and coastal regions of Ireland and Scotland
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Roadsides, waste ground, dunes, fields, dry grassland
Flowers:
Long-stalked, pale pink to whitish, with stamens about as long as the perianth segments; in a compact spherical cluster at the top of the stems, subtended by a broad, papery bract. Flowers are mixed with reddish-purple bulbils, which sprout in situ to form new stems
Leaves:
Greyish-green, linear, hollow, basal, D-shaped in cross-section
Season:
June to July
Rarity:
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