Crow Garlic - Allium vineale
Medium to tall plant to 1.2 metres. Leaves 2 to 4 in number, grooved, subcylindrical, hollow and sheathing the lower half of the stem. Spathe 1 valved, beaked, shorter than the umbel, soon falling. Flowers pink to red or greenish white, bell shaped, 2 to 4.5 mm long, long stalked in lax umbel, often mixed with bulbils, stamens generally more or less protruding.
Dry grassy or rocky habitats.
Flowering June to August.
Perennial.
Widespread in England and Wales, more local elsewhere in Britain.
Infrequent and local in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 9 of the 617 tetrads.
David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
26 June 2014
Graham Calow
Croft Pasture
14 July 2014
bulbils
David Gould
Croft Pasture, Leics
27 June 2016
sue
Ratcliffe Culey
02 July 2023
bulbils in flowerhead, sprouting
sue
Ratcliffe Culey, Sibson Rd verges at Westlands (Ettie's Field) entrance
02 July 2023
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wild Onion, Crow Garlic
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Asparagales
- Family:
- Amaryllidaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 13
- First record:
- 26/06/2014 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 02/07/2023 (Timms, Sue)
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David Nicholls
Croft Pasture
26 June 2014
David Gould
Croft Pasture
26 June 2014
David Gould
Croft Pasture, Leics
27 June 2016
