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Allium carinatum
Keeled garlic is a small bulbous perennial in the onion family, native to central and southern Europe and parts of Turkey, grown for its nodding purple flowers and aromatic bulbs. Plant the bulb in well-drained soil in full sun and let it die back naturally after flowering.
Allium carinatum, the keeled garlic or witch's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is widespread across central and southern Europe, with some populations in Asiatic Turkey. It is cultivated in many places as an ornamental and also for its potently aromatic bulbs used as a food flavoring.
Subspecies
A. carinatum subsp. pulchellum
and the white flowering form A. carinatum subsp. pulchellum f. album have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Allium carinatum is considered native to the Mediterranean Region from Spain to Turkey, north to Sweden and the Baltic Republics. It is naturalized in the British Isles
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
