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Allium moly

Rukuhia peat bog, Hamilton Basin. Dec 2006.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Rukuhia peat bog, Hamilton Basin. Dec 2006. Bulb.<br>Photographer: Peter J de Lange, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

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Common names

yellow garlic

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Structural class

Herbs - Monocots

Flower colours

Yellow

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Allium

Family

Alliaceae

Authority

Allium moly L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

2006

Reason for introduction

Ornamental

Life cycle and dispersal

Bulbous perennial plant. Reproduces by daughter offsets from bulbs and by seed. Seed is small, long-lived in seed soil bank. Dispersal presumably as a garden discard from which it may spread vegetatively from daughter bulb offsets and by seed which germinates freely.

Other information

Etymology

allium: Possibly from the Latin word for garlic or the Celtic word all ‘pungent’ or ‘burning’

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