Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Crow Garlic, Wild Onion, Allium vineale, Gairleog Mhuire
Macroom and Castletownsend, Co. Cork

Crow Garlic / Wild Onion
Allium vineale
Gairleog Mhuire
Family: Lilaceae

Flowering June-July. Bulbous perennial. Native.

Umbels of bulbils or occasionally with flowers and bulbils together. When present the long-stalked, bell shaped flowers have pinkish or greenish-white tepals. The single-valved, beaked spathe is shorter than umbels and falling early. Long slender leaves, hollow, nearly cylindrical, sheathing lower part of stem. 30-75cm.

Dry neutral or calcareous soils, grassland, roadsides, hedge banks. Native in the southern half of Ireland, possibly introduced in the north.

Crow Garlic, Wild Onion, Allium vineale, Gairleog Mhuire

Crow Garlic, Wild Onion, Allium vineale, Gairleog Mhuire
Crow Garlic / Wild Onion, Allium vineale, Gairleog Mhuire

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