Common name: Three-cornered Garlic
Scientific name: Allium triquetrum 三棱葱, 三棱莖葱
Genus: Allium 葱屬
Family: Family: Alliaceae 葱科, onion family
Remarks*:
Origin: Neophyte (established after 1500 AD). It is a native of the W. & C. Mediterranean region. It was introduced by 1759 and established by 1849.
Date: 27th May
There are 2-5 leaves for each individual plant.
Stem is sharply 3-angled (could not be seen in the above photo), and is up to 45 cm tall. (vs stem is smooth in Allium oleraceum 菜園葱, field garlic)
Leaves 5-17 mm wide. They are flat and are keeled beneath.
The tip of the leaf.
Another plant.
Flowers are dropping, in 3-15 flowered umbel, rather lax and 1-sided, without bulbils. There are originally 2 bracts, but had dropped for the above specimen. (vs flowers absent, or 1-few in umbels with small green bulbils in Allium paradoxum 鈴鐺葱, few-flowered garlic vs 5-40-flowered umbel, with few to many bulbils, or sometimes with bulbils only in Allium oleraceum 菜園葱, field garlic.)
6 tepals, 10-18mm long, white with longitudinal green stripe. Stamens not protruding.
There are 6 stamens originally, 3 of them had their anthers dropped in this flower. 1 style with 3 stigmas.
Another umbel.
6 stamens could be seen in this flower.
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