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Allium canadense (Canada garlic)

Other names: Meadow garlic, Meadow leek, Rose leek, Canada onion, Canadian garlic, Meadow garlic, Wild onion, Wild garlic

A. canadense is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial with an edible, onion-like bulb bearing linear, blue-green leaves and dome-like clusters of star-shaped, white or pink flowers in late spring and early summer.
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0.2m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium tuberosum (Chinese chives)

Other names: Garlic chives, Oriental garlic, Fragrant-flowered garlic

A. tuberosum is a vigorous, clump-forming, bulbous perennial with linear, keeled, edible, mid-green leaves and erect stems bearing umbels of fragrant, star-shaped, white flowers from summer into autumn.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium sativum (Garlic)

A. sativum forms long, narrow flat leaves, white flowers on a tall stalk and an edible, stongly scented bulb divided into bulbets or cloves, contained in a whitish skin.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium cepa (Onion)

A. cepa is a bulbous perennial with strap-like green leaves cultivated as an edible vegetable.
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0.5m max. spread

0.5m max. height

1-2 years to maturity

Allium 'White' (Allium 'White')

'White' has strap-shaped, grey-green leaves and globular clusters of starry white flowers.
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0.5m max. spread

1.5m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium moly (Golden garlic)

Other names: Golden flowered garlic, Lily leek, Moly, Sorcerer's garlic, Yellow garlic, Yellow onion

A. moly is a clump-forming, bulbous perennial with grey-green strap-shaped leaves and umbels of golden yellow, star-shaped flowers on wiry stems in early summer.
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0.1m max. spread

0.25m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium siculum (Mediterranean Bells)

A. siculum is a tall bulbous perennial with a crown of bell-shaped flowers that grow green on the outside with lilac-pink markings on the inside.
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0.1m max. spread

1m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium oreophilum (Allium oreophilum)

Other names: Allium ostrowskianum

A. oreophilum is a low-growing bulbous perennial with strap-shaped leaves. In late spring or early summer, it bears clusters of dainty rose-pink flowers.
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0.2m max. spread

0.15m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium nigrum (Black garlic)

Other names: Allium multibulbosum, Broad-leaved onion , Allium afrum, Allium bauerianum, Allium magicum, Allium paucibulbosum, Kalabotis nigrum

A. nigrum is a bulbous perennial with strap-shaped leaves. In mid-summer, it produces globular heads of white, star-shaped flowers on upright stems. It gets its name from the dark centres to its flowers.
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0.4m max. spread

0.45m max. height

2-5 years to maturity

Allium ursinum (Wild garlic)

Other names: Ramsons wild garlic

A. ursinum is an edible, bulbous, perennial groundcover with linear, green leaves appearing in midwinter. It has white flowers in spring and then dies down in early summer.
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0.5m max. spread

0.6m max. height

2-5 years to maturity