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Rosy Garlic, Allium roseum Family: Lilaceae
Rosy Garlic
Allium roseum


Flowering time: May-July. Bulbous perennial. Neophyte

Originally a garden escape sometimes naturalised on waste and arable ground and in hedgerows and urban areas

Many-flowered umbels of slightly fragrant pink flowers with six tepals and bulbils are sometimes also present. The strap-like leaves are slightly rough and without a keel


Rosy Garlic, Allium roseum

Rosy Garlic, Allium roseum
Rosy Garlic, Allium roseum
Corfe Mullen, Dorset. May 2020

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