Allium neapolitanumCirillo

white garlic

WFO wfo-0000756802 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. a Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-13 / obs. 197295627
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Serena De Santis
fig. b Serena De Santis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194457041
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Karen Fry
fig. c Karen Fry, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195024852
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb
fig. d Gianni Del Bufalo bygdb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190850801
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by David Lazarus
fig. e David Lazarus, CC0 1.0 / obs. 188397631
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Kenta Nakahashi
fig. f Kenta Nakahashi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187856878
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. g Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 187701362
Allium neapolitanum, photographed by David Delon
fig. h David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187342806

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Allium neapolitanum is native: Egypt, Libya, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe EgyptLibyaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Allium neapolitanum, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Egypt EGY AFRICA
Libya LBY

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.

Flowering 513 in flower of 528 examined

Peak flowering in Sep. Each bar is the share of Allium neapolitanum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 513 of 528 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 21 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 album Santi
  • Allium amblyopetalum Link
  • Allium candidissimum Cav.
  • Allium candidum C.Presl
  • Allium cowanii Lindl.
  • Allium gouanii G.Don
  • Allium inodorum Aiton
  • Allium lacteum Sm.
  • Allium laetum Pollini
  • Allium liliflorum Zeyh.
  • Allium neapolitanum var. angustifolium Täckh. & Drar
  • Allium sieberianum Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Allium subhirsutum Sieber ex Kunth
  • Allium subhirsutum Delile ex Boiss.
  • Allium subhirsutum subsp. album (Santi) Maire & Weiller
  • Allium subhirsutum var. glabrum Regel
  • Allium sulcatum DC.
  • Geboscon inodorum (Aiton) Thell.
  • Nectaroscordum neapolitanum (Cirillo) Galasso & Banfi
  • Nothoscordum inodorum (Aiton) G.Nicholson
  • Nothoscordum inodorum (Aiton) Asch. & Graebn.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.