| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Throughout, except scarce in the Mountains.
Native of Europe; in N.A. ME to MI and KS, south to GA and eastern TX; CA. | |
| Abundance | Common to often very common, except rare in the Mountains. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, yards, garden weed, waste lots, dry to moist woodlands, etc. | |
| Phenology | Flowering May-June and fruiting July-Aug. | |
| Identification | Field Garlic is a familiar yard and roadside weed to biologists, but many people will simply walk past it, even when in bloom. It grows from a relatively narrow, white, elongate bulb; sometimes these are clustered. The leaves and flowering stems -- exuding an unpleasant "oniony" odor to many if not most people -- are a dark grayish green and rounded in cross-section (vs. reasonably flat or channeled in A. canadense). The flowers occur in a hemispherical or rotund head, at least some flowers replaced by dark red-purple bulblets. The few flowers are lavender-purple in color, usually staying somewhat closed (and not widely-spread into a 6-pointed star-shape as in A. canadense). | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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| USACE-agcp | FACU link |
| USACE-emp | FACU link |
