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Allium subvillosum

Allium subvillosum
Photo: Xemenendura, CC BY-SA 4.0

Allium subvillosum, the spring garlic, is a small bulb-forming wild onion from southern Europe and North Africa, growing up to 30 cm tall with hairy, narrow leaves and white flowers. Give it full sun or light shade and well-drained soil, and let it go dormant in summer.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water moderately while growing in spring, then keep nearly dry during summer dormancy.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty or sandy soil with some organic matter.
Temperature
Hardy to about -10 °C; most comfortable at 5–25 °C.
How easy
Easy
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
Azores, S. Portugal to Sicilia, N. Africa
Climate
subtropical

About

Allium subvillosum, the spring garlic, is a European and North African species of wild onion native to southern Iberia, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, northern Africa (Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Azores where it might be introduced.

Allium subvillosum is a bulb-forming perennial up to 30 cm tall. Leaves are long and narrow, with long white hairs clearly visible to the naked eye. Umbel is hemispherical, with 15-20 flowers on long pedicels. Flowers are white with yellow anthers.

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 subvillosum 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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