Macroom and Castletownsend, Co. Cork

Crow Garlic / Wild Onion Allium vineale Gairleog Mhuire Family: Lilaceae Flowering June-July. Bulbous perennial. Native. Umbels of bulbils or occasionally with flowers and bulbils together. When present the long-stalked, bell shaped flowers have pinkish or greenish-white tepals. The single-valved, beaked spathe is shorter than umbels and falling early. Long slender leaves, hollow, nearly cylindrical, sheathing lower part of stem. 30-75cm. Dry neutral or calcareous soils, grassland, roadsides, hedge banks. Native in the southern half of Ireland, possibly introduced in the north.

Crow Garlic / Wild Onion, Allium vineale, Gairleog Mhuire