It’s thin and tall and almost never comes out by the root. Instead, it breaks off just below the soil surface and releases a pungent oniony odor that lingers on your hand. It’s onion grass.

A recent walk in a crunchy-leafed forest in New York revealed the fresh green spikes of field garlic (invasive Allium vineale—also called onion grass and wild chives).

Allium vineale, which I know as field garlic, grows in clumps of linear leaves that are well camouflaged when they grow in grass lawns. But unlike grass or even other edible Alliums, ...

Allium, known for its pungent aroma, includes more than 500 species, including the familiar onion, garlic, chives, and a variety of beautiful flowering plants.Pollinators love the hardy, long ...

Wild garlic, Allium vineale, a member of the lily family, is a close cousin to edible garlic and onions. It is a cool-season, perennial weed that literally jumps out of the ground each spring as ...

Wild garlic, Allium vineale, is a member of the lily family, a close cousin to edible garlic and onions. The cylindrical leaves of the weed are waxy, bluish-green and hollow.

Allium is the genus that gives us onions and all their many relatives: there are hundreds of wild species, and of course, several of them have been cultivated and enjoyed for thousands of years.

Bigger again are Allium ‘His Excellency’ (90cm, May-June flowering), and Allium ‘Gladiator’, a lofty and robust variety with violet, drumstick flowers in June that reach a height of 1.5 ...

Snipping off the smaller and more tender leaves of the field garlic (Allium vineale) will give you a oniony-garlicky substitute for chives. In the early spring, the leaves of field garlic are very ...