Allium canadenseL.

Canadian Meadow garlic

WFO wfo-0000755875 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY In the accuracy benchmark

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Allium canadense, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 202766105
Allium canadense, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. b Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202781853
Allium canadense, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. c Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203310790
Allium canadense, photographed by John Abrams
fig. d John Abrams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201303639
Allium canadense, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. e Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202621729
Allium canadense, photographed by john_hall
fig. f john_hall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199883098
Allium canadense, photographed by mefisher
fig. g mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202790012
Allium canadense, photographed by mefisher
fig. h mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198342801

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Flowering n = 972 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 972 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Allium acetabulum (Raf.) Shinners
  • Allium acetabulum var. lavendulare (Bates) Shinners
  • Allium arenicola Small
  • Allium canadense Herb. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium canadense subsp. ecristatum (Ownbey) Traub & Ownbey
  • Allium canadense subsp. hyacinthoides (Bush) Traub & Ownbey
  • Allium canadense subsp. lavendulare (Bates) Traub & Ownbey
  • Allium canadense subsp. mobilense (Regel) Traub & Ownbey
  • Allium canadense var. ovoideum Farw.
  • Allium canadense var. robustum Farw.
  • Allium continuum Small
  • Allium hyacinthoides Bush
  • Allium lavendulare Bates
  • Allium microscordion Small
  • Allium mobilense Regel
  • Allium mutabile Michx.
  • Allium reticulatum var. ecristatum M.E.Jones
  • Allium zenobiae Cory
  • Geboscon acetabulum Raf.
  • Kalabotis canadensis (L.) Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.