Taxon: Allium canadense 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:

DC°, FL°, IL°, MD°, ME°, MI*°, MO°, NJ°, NY°, OH°, PA°, RI°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Allium canadense var. canadense (no accessions)

Common names:

• Canada onion   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• Canadian garlic   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• meadow garlic   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• meadow leek   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• wild Canada onion   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• wild garlic   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• wild onion   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  
• ajo de montaña   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish (Cuba)
  
• ajo porro   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish (Cuba)
  
• kanadalök   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (in Cuba fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Lampe & McCann)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Noxweed seed list 1998)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Allium canadense from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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, Ontario, Quebec
  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, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Cuba

References:

• 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).
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Eilers, L. J. & D. M. Roosa. 1994. The vascular plants of Iowa.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• 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).
• 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.
• Seymour, F. 1969. The flora of New England.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Allium canadense.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Allium canadense.

Synonyms:

• Allium mutabile Michx. [= Allium canadense var. canadense]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Allium canadense L.:

• 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.
• Bulblet: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• 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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