Photos: Macroom, Co. Cork |
Crow Garlic / Wild Onion Umbels of bulbils or occasionally flowers and bulbils together. Long-stalked bell shaped flowers with pinkish or greenish-white tepals. Blue-flowered form occurs in N Kerry. Single-valved, beaked spathe, shorter than umbel, falling early. Long slender leaves, hollow, nearly cylindrical, sheathing lower part of stem. 30-75cm. Dry neutral or calcareous soils, grassland, roadsides, hedge banks. Native in south half and E Ireland, possibly introduced in NE. |