Common name: Field Garlic
Allium oleraceum L. APNI* 
Description: Erect herb, mostly 40–50 cm high; bulb ovoid, c. 15 mm diam.
Leaves 2–4, 10–50 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, with 7 or 8 longitudinal veins, glabrous with scabrid margins.
Umbel 2.5–3.5 cm diam., few-many-flowered; scape 25–80 cm long; pedicels 12–20 mm long; spathe usually two-lobed, much longer than pedicels. Perianth cup-shaped; tepals 5–6 mm long, acute, white with prominent green midvein; bulbils present. Stigma entire. Stamens included; filaments simple, linear, 5–6 mm long.
Capsule often not formed.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Naturalized in Sydney district. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CC
Other Australian states: *Vic.
Text by D. C. Godden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)
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