Allium vineale |
Allium drummondii |
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cow garlic, crow garlic, field garlic, short-beak agoseris, vineyard onion, wild chives, wild garlic |
Drummond onion, Drummond's onion |
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Bulbs | 5–20, clustered, stipitate, hard-shelled, asymmetric, ovoid, 1–2 × 1–2 cm; outer coats enclosing bulbs, brownish to yellowish, membranous, vertically striate, splitting into parallel strips and fibers, cells arranged in ± wavy rows, vertical; inner coats white to light brown, cells obscure, vertically elongate. |
1–5, without basal bulbels, ovoid, 1–1.8 × 0.7–1.5 cm; outer coats enclosing 1 or more bulbs, brown, reticulate, cells fine-meshed, mostly closed in proximal 1/2 of bulb, fibrous; inner coats whitish or brownish, cells intricately contorted, walls usually not sinuous. |
Leaves | persistent, green at anthesis, 2–4, sheathing at least proximal 1/2 scape; blade hollow below middle, terete, cylindric or filiform, not carinate, 20–60 cm × 2–4 mm, margins entire. |
persistent, green at anthesis, 2–5, sheathing; blade solid, flat, channeled, 10–30 cm × 1–3(–5) mm, margins entire. |
Scape | persistent, solitary, erect, terete, 30–120 cm × 1.5–4 mm. |
persistent, solitary, erect, terete, 10–30 cm × 1–3 mm. |
Umbel | persistent, erect, ± compact, 0–50-flowered, subglobose to ovoid or hemispheric, flowering pedicels all or in part replaced by bulbils; bulbils sessile, basally narrowed, 4–6 × 2–3 mm; spathe bract caducous, 1, 2–several-veined, ovate, apex caudate, beaked, beak ± equaling or longer than base. |
persistent, erect, compact to ± loose, usually 10–25-flowered, hemispheric-globose, rarely replaced by bulbils; spathe bracts persistent, 2–3, 1-veined, ovate, ± equal, apex acuminate. |
Flowers | campanulate, 3–4 mm; tepals erect, greenish to purple, elliptic-lanceolate, ± equal, withering in fruit, margins entire, apex obtuse; stamens exserted, outer 3 filaments without appendages, inner 3 filaments with 2 prominent lateral appendages; anthers purple; pollen white; ovary crestless; style exserted, linear, ± equaling stamen; stigma capitate, scarcely thickened, unlobed; flowering pedicel 10–20 mm. |
campanulate to ± stellate, 6–9 mm; tepals spreading, white, pink, or red, rarely greenish yellow, ovate to lanceolate, ± equal, becoming papery and rigid in fruit, margins entire, apex obtuse or acute, midribs somewhat thickened; stamens included; anthers yellow; pollen light yellow; ovary crestless; style linear, equaling stamens; stigma capitate, unlobed or obscurely lobed; pedicel 5–20 mm. |
Seed | coat shining; cells smooth. |
coat shining; cells each usually with minute, central papilla. |
2n | = 32, 40. |
= 14, 28. |
Allium vineale |
Allium drummondii |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Jun. |
Habitat | Disturbed areas often adjacent to agricultural lands | Plains, hills, and prairies, particularly in limestone soils |
Elevation | 0–700 m (0–2300 ft) | 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DC; DE; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; VA; WV; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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AR; KS; NE; NM; OK; TX; Mexico
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Discussion | Allium vineale is also expected to be found in Wisconsin and Texas; specimens were not seen. It is a noxious weed, apparently introduced from Europe in colonial times. The small, wheat-sized bulbils frequently contaminated wheat grown in infested areas. Bread made from such wheat was garlic-flavored, and cows grazing in infested pastures produce garlic-flavored milk. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 237. | FNA vol. 26, p. 239. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Allium | Liliaceae > Allium |
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Synonyms | A. helleri, A. nuttallii, A. reticulatum var. nuttallii | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 299. (1753) | Regel: Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 3: 112. (1875) |
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