Taxon: Allium tricoccum Aiton

Common names:

• ramp   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• wild leek   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• wood leek   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• ail des bois   (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French
  
• ail sauvage   (Source: F Canada ) – French
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide L Edible Pl; Food Feed Crops US)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario [s.e.], Quebec [s.]
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota [e.], South Dakota [e.], Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama [n.], Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia [n.], Kentucky, Maryland [w.], North Carolina [w.], South Carolina [n.w.], Tennessee, Virginia

References:

• Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. 1984. Herbaceous plants of Maryland.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [lists as A. tricoccum Sol.].
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Feuillet, C. 1998. pers. comm. [re. French common names].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jones, A. G. 1979. A study of wild leek, and the recognition of Allium burdickii (Liliaceae). Syst. Bot. 4:29–43. [lists as A. tricoccum Sol.].
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1977. Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains.
• Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). 1967–. The vascular flora of Ohio.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Voss, E. 1972–. Michigan flora.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Wherry, E. T. et al. 1979. Atlas of the flora of Pennsylvania.
• Yatskievych, G. 1999–. Steyermark's Flora of Missouri, revised edition.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium tricoccum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium tricoccum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium tricoccum.

Check other web resources for Allium tricoccum Aiton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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