Amaryllis Family

Amaryllis Family - Amaryllidaceae

Rosy Garlic Allium roseum

Native throughout most of the Mediterranean Region. Flowerheads a mix of flowers and bulbils, or occasionally only bulbils; tepals clear pink, showy. Leaves flat or slightly keeled, glossy on the underside. Garlic smell.


Habit	Habit	Flower	Flower

Neapolitan Garlic Allium neapolitanum

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Flowers with greyish-green anthers, tepals all white on both sides. Leaves flat in cross-section with hairless margins. Garlic smell.


Habit	Habit	Flowers with grey-green anthers	Leaf margin

Hairy Garlic Allium subhirsutum

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Flowers with pinkish-brown anthers, becoming yellow at maturity; tepals all white on both sides. Leaves flat in cross-section with hairy margins. Garlic smell.


Habit	Habit	Flowers with pinkish-brown anthers	Leaf margins

Wild Leek Allium ampeloprasum

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region from Macaronesia to Central Asia. In grassy places and roadsides, especially around antiquity sites where the plant has been cultivated in the past. Flowerhead compact, scape broad. Flowers off white or dull pink, stamens exserted.


Flowerhead	Flowers	Scape

Leaves	Leaf bases	Seedhead

Round-headed Leek Allium sphaerocephalon

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region from Macaronesia to the Caucasus.


Habit	Flowerhead	Scape	Leaf detail

Wild Onion Allium viniale

(Crow Garlic) Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region to Iran. Flowerheads may consist of pink flowers, reddish or brownish bulbils, or a combination of the two. Bulbils often sprout green shoots before falling. Spathe with the beak as long as or slightly longer than the base. Leaves narrow (to 4mm wide), hollow-tubular, appearing in clusters and typically upright, but sometimes cork-screwed. Onion smell.


Habit	Flowers	Sprouting bulbils	Leaves

Broad-leaved Leek Allium nigrum

Native throughout the central and eastern Mediterranean Region. Sometimes with gladioli in arable fields.


Habit	Flowerhead	Flowers	Flower

Flower	Scape	Leaves

Cyrill's Leek Allium cyrillii

Native patchily in southern France and Italy, becoming more widespread in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean Region.


Flowerhead	Flowerhead

Greater Snowdrop Galanthus elwesii

Native to South-east Europe and Turkey. Leaves broad (up to 30mm wide), glaucous with a clearly hooded tip on the front at the apex. Flowers variable with the inner tepals either marked with green at the tip only, at the tip and base, or with the two marks variously merged into one larger patch of colour.


Habit	Flower	Flower	Leaves

Bunch-flowered Daffodil Narcissus tazetta

native throughout the Mediterranean Region to western Asia. Flowers December to March. Flowers small, 3-8 per stem. Perianth tube 12-18mm. Tepals yellow or white, 8-22mm long; corona yellow or orange, 3-6mm long.