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Allium ursinum
Also called Ramsons, Bear Garlic, Buckrams, Gypsy Onion, Hog Garlic, Wood Garlic, Ramp
Wild garlic is a bulbous perennial woodland plant in the onion family, native to moist deciduous woods across temperate Europe and the Caucasus. It thrives in cool, moist, slightly acidic shade and grows best when left undisturbed in woodland settings.
Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic, onion grass, or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is native to Eurasia, where it grows in moist woodland. It is a wild relative of onion and garlic, all belonging to the same genus, Allium. There are two recognized subspecies: A. ursinum subsp. ursinum and A. ursinum subsp. ucrainicum.
It is native to Europe and Asia, where it grows in moist woodland. It can be found in temperate Europe from Ireland east to the Caucasus. It is common in much of the lowlands of the British Isles with the exception of the far north of Scotland, Orkney and Shetland. The ursinum subspecies is found in western and central Europe, while the ucrainicum subspecies is found in the east and southeast.
All parts of A. ursinum are edible. The leaves can be used as a salad or boiled as a vegetable. A variety of Cornish Yarg cheese has a rind coated in wild garlic leaves.
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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.
