Scientific name: Allium ursinum L.
Common name: Wild Garlic, Ramsons.
Description
Habit: Rootstock bulbous, bulb very small; stem slender, up to 50cm, usually 2-angled and semi-cylindrical, sometimes 3-angled; with a strong smell of garlic.
Leaves: Leaves basal, some sheathing the base of the stem and appearing to arise from it, usually only 2 to each stem, narrowly elliptical to narrowly ovate, petiole up to as long as blade, base rounded or subcordate, 4-7cm wide.
Flowers: In an umbel, subtended by 1-2 papery bracts; perianth segments free, flowers white, star-like, in a loose umbel of 8-20 flowers; ovary superior, ovules usually 2 per cell; stamens without appendages, shorter than tepals, c. 7mm long.
Fruits: Capsule 3-4mm.
Habitat: Woods, hedges and damp, shady places.
Distribution: Frequent, locally abundant.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No