Photographs: Co. Cork

Three-cornered Garlic / Three-cornered Leek Allium triquetrum Creamh garraí Family: Lilaceae Flowering: February-May. Perennial bulb. Introduced. Garden escape. The white bell-shaped flowers with a green stripe hang down in one-sided umbels. Leaves are basal, bright-green, linear and keeled. The whole plant is strongly garlic-scented. Erect 3-angled hollow stems grow from a bulbous rootstock. Flower stems: To 40cm. Woodland, grassy banks, waste ground and roadsides. Mainly southern and eastern Ireland and can be locally abundant in some coastal areas Can be confused with Ramsons, Allium ursinum

Three-cornered Garlic, Allium triquetrum, Creamh garraí