Allium vinealeL.

wild garlic

WFO wfo-0000757711 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Allium vineale, photographed by Violet T.
fig. a Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204988192
Allium vineale, photographed by Michel Langeveld
fig. b Michel Langeveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205587254
Allium vineale, photographed by Andrew Skotnicki
fig. c Andrew Skotnicki, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205525341
Allium vineale, photographed by Nicholas Stockmaster
fig. d Nicholas Stockmaster, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205253936
Allium vineale, photographed by Violet T.
fig. e Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204987645
Allium vineale, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203611226
Allium vineale, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted
fig. g Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204862252
Allium vineale, photographed by Michel Langeveld
fig. h Michel Langeveld, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203249407

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Flowering n = 531 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 531 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 34 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 affine Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Allium arenarium Wahlenb.
  • Allium assimile Halácsy
  • Allium campestre Schleich. ex Steud.
  • Allium compactum Thuill.
  • Allium guttatum var. compactum (Batt. & Trab.) Franco & Rocha Afonso
  • Allium laxiflorum Tausch
  • Allium littoreum Bertol.
  • Allium margaritaceum var. bulbiferum Batt. & Trab.
  • Allium nitens Sauzé & Maillard
  • Allium purshii G.Don
  • Allium rilaense Panov
  • Allium rotundum Wimm. & Grab.
  • Allium sphaerocephalum L.
  • Allium sphaerocephalum Crome ex Schltdl.
  • Allium subvineale Wendelbo
  • Allium vineale subsp. affine (Regel) K.Richt.
  • Allium vineale subsp. asperiflorum (Regel) K.Richt.
  • Allium vineale subsp. capsuliferum (Syme) K.Richt.
  • Allium vineale subsp. compactum (Thuill.) K.Richt.
  • Allium vineale subsp. kochii (Lange) Nyman
  • Allium vineale var. affine Regel
  • Allium vineale var. asperiflorum Regel
  • Allium vineale var. bulbiferum Syme

and 10 more.

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.