Allium moschatumL.

WFO wfo-0000756782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Allium moschatum, photographed by Roland Godon
fig. a Roland Godon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-25 / obs. 159593136
Allium moschatum, photographed by Michael D. Pirie
fig. b Michael D. Pirie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 49722161
Allium moschatum, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. c Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154416495
Allium moschatum, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. d Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154415655

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Allium moschatum is native: Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe IranNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Allium moschatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 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 capillare Cav.
  • Allium cupani Guss.
  • Allium moschatum var. borzhomicum Miscz. ex Grossh.
  • Allium setaceum Waldst. & Kit.
  • Scorodon moschatus (L.) Fourr.

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.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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