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Italian Garlic

Allium pendulinum

Italian Garlic
Photo: User:Tigerente, CC BY 2.5

Italian garlic is a small perennial bulbous plant from the Mediterranean, known for its few drooping white flowers on long stalks. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, so most care advice here is general bulb-plant knowledge.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while leaves are growing in spring, then keep dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy soil
Temperature
5–25 °C; tolerates cold winters, protect from prolonged waterlogging
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
WC. Medit.
Climate
subtropical

About

Allium pendulinum, called Italian garlic, is a plant species known only from Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica and mainland Italy.

Allium pendulinum is a perennial herb up to 25 cm tall but usually much shorter. It generally produces only leaves, both of which wither before flowering time. There is no spathe at flowering time. Umbel has only a few flowers, usually less than 10, all on long pedicels and very often drooping (nodding, hanging downward). Tepals are white, each with three thin prominent green veins; anthers cream; ovary at flowering time green.

Other Allium plants

South Idaho onion · Abrams' allium · Allium aciphyllum · Tapertip onion · Allium aeginiense · Allium aflatunense · Allium agrigentinum · Allium alabasicum · Allium albotunicatum · Allium alibile · Altai Onion · Allium altissimum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Allium pendulinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

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.

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