Wild Garlic

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• Scientific Name: Allium vineale (L.)

Wild garlic has slender, hollow, cylindrical leaves that appear during cool weather, typically before turf begins to grow in the spring. The leaves disappear as temperatures warm.

Wild garlic in turfgrass

• Common Names: Wild Garlic (United States), Cepalla Bavosa, Crow Garlic, Czosnek winnicowy (Polish), Field Garlic, Kraailook

• Climatic Zone: Temperate

• Geographic Distribution: Europe, North America, Africa

• Life Cycle: Perennial

• Photosynthetic Apparatus: C3

• Major Identifying Characteristic: Hollow leaves. Underground white bulb bears offset bulblets.