Taxon: Allium oleraceum L.

Genus:

Allium

Subgenus:

Allium

Section:

Codonoprasum

Family:

Amaryllidaceae

Subfamily:

Allioideae

Tribe:

Allieae

Nomen number:

2333

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:299. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

12-ene-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 22-ene-2007

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Common names:

field garlic (Source: Pl Book) - English
Gemüselauch (Source: Zander ed17) - German
Kohllauch (Source: Zander ed17) - German
backlök (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Food additives: flavoring (fide Cornucopia; Pl Book)
Weed: (fide Econ Pl Aust)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russian Federation-European part, [European part] Ukraine
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Italy (incl. Sicily), Romania
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica)

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere in temperate regions)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Duchoslav, M. et al. 2010. Complex distribution patterns, ecology and coexistence of ploidy levels of Allium oleraceum (Alliaceae) in the Czech Republic Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 105:719-735.
Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 (Cornucopia)
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964 (F USSR)
Lazarides, M. & B. Hince CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 (Econ Pl Aust)
Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997 (Pl Book)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)

Check other web resources for Allium oleraceum L. :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=2333. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.