Allium oleraceumL.

field garlic

WFO wfo-0000756866 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Allium oleraceum, photographed by Daria
fig. a Daria, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-09 / obs. 196254901
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191307241
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. c Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191307546
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176137609
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176137631
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. f Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 163599065
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. g Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162728246
Allium oleraceum, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153982433

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Allium oleraceum is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Allium oleraceum, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 227 in flower of 434 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Allium oleraceum 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. 227 of 434 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 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 18 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 complanatum Boreau
  • Allium intermedium G.Don
  • Allium oleraceum var. carinatum Nyman
  • Allium oleraceum var. latifolium W.D.J.Koch
  • Allium oxypetalum G.Don
  • Allium pallens var. pseudooleraceum Seregin
  • Allium parviflorum Thuill.
  • Allium scabrum Gilib.
  • Allium virens Lam.
  • Allium virescens Lam.
  • Cepa oleracea (L.) Bernh.
  • Codonoprasum alpicola Jord. & Fourr.
  • Codonoprasum complanatum (Boreau) Fourr.
  • Codonoprasum intermedium Rchb.
  • Codonoprasum oleraceum (L.) Rchb.
  • Codonoprasum viridiflorum Schur
  • Porrum oleraceum (L.) Moench
  • Raphione oleracea (L.) Salisb.

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.