      
Taxon: Allium ampeloprasum L.
Genus: Allium subgenus: Allium section: Allium
Family: Amaryllidaceae subfamily: Allioideae tribe: Allieae. Also placed in:
Alliaceae
Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2217
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:294. 1753, nom. cons.
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comments:Name verified on: 11-Jan-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 21-May-2013
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions:
214 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- great-head garlic (Source: Dict Rehm
) – English [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- Levant garlic (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- wild leek (Source: Hortus 3
) – English [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- ail d'orient (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- Ackerknoblauch (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- Sommerlauch (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum]
- vild purjolök (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
Native:
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Libya [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
- ASIA-TEMPERATE
Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
Western Asia: Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
- EUROPE
Northern Europe: Ireland; United Kingdom
East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
Naturalized: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- AFRICA
Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - New York [Suffock Co.], Ohio, West Virginia
North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois [s.], Oklahoma
Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
Cultivated:
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia
- EUROPE
Europe
- NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico
United States
- SOUTHERN AMERICA
Southern South America: Chile - ALSO
Asia
- PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds.
1976–. Flora of Libya.
- Boulos, L.
1999–. Flora of Egypt.
- Brewster, J. L.
1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums.
Crop Prod. Sci. Hort.
3:11.
- Brummitt, R. K.
1999. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 48.
Taxon
48:362. [conservation proposal recommended].
- Chester, E. W. et al.
1993–1997. Atlas of Tennessee vascular plants.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
- Diggs, G. M., Jr. et al.
2006–. Illustrated flora of East Texas.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- FNA Editorial Committee.
1993–. Flora of North America.
- Figliuolo, G. & D. Di Stefano.
2007. Is single bulb producing garlic Allium sativum or Allium ampeloprasum?
Sci. Hort.
114:243–249.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Fritsch, R. M. & N. Friesen.
2002. Chapter 1. Evolution, domestication and taxonomy.
In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium crop science: recent advances.
9.
- Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
4:2263–2267.
- Hanelt, P.
1996. (1258) Proposal to conserve the name Allium ampeloprasum against A. porrum (Liliaceae).
Taxon
45:691.
- Havey, M. J.
1991. Phylogenetic relationships among cultivated Allium species from restriction enzyme analysis of the chloroplast genome.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
81:752–757.
- Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds.
2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
- Jones, R. L.
2005. Plant life of Kentucky: an illustrated guide to the vascular flora.
- Kik, C. et al.
1997. Mitochondrial DNA variation and crossability of leek (Allium porrum) and its wild relatives from the Allium ampeloprasum complex.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
94:465–471. [this study found that this taxon, related ones & A. porrum are closely related & hybrids between this taxon & the latter supports that this taxon is the wild ancestor, although does not support or confirm ancestry from other taxa].
- Kik, C.
2002. Chapter 4. Exploitation of wild relatives for the breeding of cultivated Allium species.
In: Rabinowitch, H. D. & L. Currah (Eds.), Allium crop science: recent advances.
89–91.
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
- Li, Q.-Q. et al.
2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of Allium (Amaryllidaceae: Allieae) based on nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and chloroplast rps16 sequences, focusing on the inclusion of species endemic to China.
Ann. Bot. (Oxford)
106:709–733.
- 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.
- Mansfeld, R.
1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
- Mathew, B.
1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium.
- Meikle, R. D.
1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus.
- Messiaen, C.-M. et al.
1993. Les Allium alimentaires reproduits par voie végétative.
1–230.
- Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd.
1978. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants.
- Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds.
1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
- Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica.
- Ricroch, A. et al.
2005. Evolution of genome size across some cultivated Allium species.
Genome
48:511–520.
- Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds.
1993. Vegetables.
In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
8:62.
- Silva, L. et al.
2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
- Smith, E. B.
1978. An atlas and annotated list of the vascular plants of Arkansas.
- Stearn, W. T.
1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World.
Herbertia
11:11–34.
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea.
- Valdés, B. et al., eds.
2002. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification.
- Weakley, A. S.
2011. Flora of the southern and middle Atlantic states.
- Yanagino, T. et al.
2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
107:1–5.
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Allium ampeloprasum L.:
Images:
- More:
- 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.
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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2217 (23 May 2013)
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