Taxon: Allium spp.*

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:

AL(wild onion or garlic)°, AR(wild onion or garlic)*°, DE°, GA°, IN°, KS°, KY°, LA°, MA°, MS°, NC°, OK*°, SC°, TN°, TX°, VA°, VT°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• wild garlic   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• wild onion   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed   (fide State Noxweed Seed)
  

References:

• 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)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium sp..

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

Synonyms:

• (=) Nectaroscordum spp.
  

Check other databases for Allium spp.:

• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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?300022 (09 February 2010)

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