Allium roseum

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : allro

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Allium illyricum Jacquin.

Classification: Liliaceae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: rosy garlic.

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Rosen-Lauch ; ES : ajo de bruja ; FR : ail rosé ; IT : aglio roseo ; PT : alho-róseo ; EN : rosy garlic ;

Biological type: Perennial with bulbs, Perennial with bulbils

Seed:

Seedling:

- Plant propagates vegetatively by bulbs and

bulbils; establishment of seedling is exceptional.

Adult plant:

- Height: 30 80 cm.

- Stem cylindrical, leafy at base, glabrous. Bulb surrounded with numerous bulbils.

- Leaves of 3 5 , linear, grooved 5 12 mm large, slightly dentate, margin rough, glabrous, until 30 cm long, scape sheathed by leaves at base.

- Flowers vivid rose tall (10 12 mm long), in umbel, and sometimes with bulbils. Style and stamens: 1/4 size of calyx and corolla.

- Fruits: capsules.

- Plant with high smell of garlic. Frequency: rare in crops.

- Biological type: perennial with bulbs and bulbils.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Rare Present