Amaryllis Family

Amaryllis Family - Amaryllidaceae

Wild Leek Allium ampeloprasum

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region from Macaronesia to Central Asia. Frequent in grassy places and roadsides, sometimes forming extensive colonies, 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

Allium circinnatum ssp. peloponnesiacum

Native from southern Greece to Crete and Turkey, with this subspecies endemic to Peloponnese and rare in dry, stony places.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Flowers

Three-leaved Garlic Allium trifoliatum

Native in the Mediterranean Region from southern France to the Levant. Flowers white with a pink central stripe to the tepals, or pink-washed. Leaves flat in cross-section with hairy margins. Garlic smell.


Flowers	Flowers	Leaf detail	Leaf detail

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

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.