Allium polyanthum, called the many-flowered garlic, is a Mediterranean species of wild onion native to Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, and Tunisia.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families It is widely cultivated for its edible and potently aromatic bulbs and foliage.Altervista Flora Italiana, Aglio con molti fiori, Allium polyanthum
Allium polyanthum produces an egg-shaped bulb, often with small bulblets around the base. Scape can be up to 80 cm tall. Leaves are flat and broadly linear, tapering at the tip. Flowers are numerous and small, white or pink.Josef August Schultes & Julius Hermann Schultes. 1830. Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata. Stuttgardtiae 7(2): 1016.O.Bolòs & al. 1990. Flora Manual del Països Catalans 1213, Allium ampeloprasum subsp. polyanthumJauzein, Philippe & Tison, J.-M. 2005.Lejeunia n.s., 178: 12, Allium porrum subsp. polyanthum
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