Taxon: Allium vineale L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

CA*°, DC°, HI*°, IL°, MD°, ME°, MI*°, MO°, NJ°, NY°, OH°, OR°, PA°, RI°, WV°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• alho-vinhedo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  
• crow garlic   (Source: Econ Pl Aust )
  
• false garlic   (Source: Pl Book )
  
• field garlic   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• kochs Lauch   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• stag garlic   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• Weinbergslauch   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• wild garlic   (Source: L NWeeds Hawaii )
  
• wild onion   (Source: F BritStace )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Allium vineale from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

Other:

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany, ed. 8. (Grays Man)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hawaii Department of Agriculture. 1992. List of plant species designated as noxious weeds for eradication or control purposes. (L NWeeds Hawaii)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Mathew, B. 1996. A review of Allium sect. Allium. (Rev sect Allium)
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. (Noxweed Aust)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. Herbertia 11:11–34.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Valdés, B. et al., eds. 2002. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du nord du Maroc, incluant des clés d'identification. (L NMaroc)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium vineale.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Allium vineale. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium kochii Lange
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Allium vineale var. purpureum H. P. G. Koch
  

Check other databases for Allium vineale L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?2416 (22 November 2009)

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