Wild garlic or Onion grass is native to warm regions of Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia. The thin, hollow but very fibrous stems can grow to a length of more than half a metre, knitting needle-like leaves are formed. Where a flower is usually expected, the plant carries a bundle of bulbs. Only about two thirds of all plants produce flowers at all, propagation is predominantly vegetative. If they bloom, then from June to August. Young plants already form when the bulbils are still attached to the mother plant.

The bulbils, which are only about 5 mm in size, the bulb as well as young stems and leaves (older ones become tough) are edible and all taste like chives. The taste is often also described as similar to garlic.

On the left (or top for mobile devices) you can see plants with some sprouting bulbils, on the right you can see flowering specimens.

• Edilbe Bulbils
• Culinary Group wild herbs
• Taste spicy aromatic
• Trivial Names Weinberg-Lauch, Weinbergs-Lauch, Hundszwiebel, Wilder Knoblauch, Rebenlauch, Weinbergzwiebel, Wildlauch, Hundsknoblauch, Hundslauch, Wild garlic, Onion grass, Crow garlic, Stag's garlic, Ail des vignes
• Size (Inflorescence) 2 cm
• Taxonomy Amaryllidaceae (Amaryllis Family) Allium vineale
• Origin Europe, Mediterraneum (Map)
• Locality (bulbils) Gatherd by Gaby Försterling 2018
• Locality (flowering) Gathered, Schwanheimer Düne in Frankfurt am Main 2019