Other conspecific taxa:

• Allium porrum var. sectivum (0 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (≡) Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum (L.) J. Gay

Common names:

• leek  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• kurrat abou shousha  (Source: F Egypt) - Arabic
• poireau  (Source: Rev sect Allium) - French
• Lauch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Porree  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Winter-Lauch  (Source: Zander ed17) - German
• porro  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Italian
• alho-porró  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• ajo porro  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• puerro  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• poro  (Source: Dicc Lengua Espanola) - Spanish (Latin America)
• jiu cong  (Source: Eur Gard F) - Transcribed Chinese
• riikeu  (Source: Pl Names) - Transcribed Korean

Economic Importance:

• Food additives: flavoring (fide Food Feed Crops US)
• Human food: vegetable (fide Rev sect Allium 70. 1996)
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of garlic (fide Theor Appl Genet 107:4. 2003)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated




Africa

• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya

Asia-Temperate

• CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

• MALESIA: Indonesia

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [Western Australia]

Europe

• Europe

Northern America

• United States

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: West Indies
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina


Other (probable origin e. Mediterranean region)

References:

1. PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). (PROTA4U)
2. Boulos, L. Flora of Egypt. 1999- (F Egypt)
3. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
4. Hirschegger, P. et al. 2010. Origins of Allium ampeloprasum horticultural groups and a molecular phylogeny of the section Allium (Allium: Alliaceae) Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 54:488-497.
5. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 (Econ Pl Aust)
6. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
7. Mathew, B. A review of Allium sect. Allium. 1996 (Rev sect Allium)
8. Paunero, E. et al. 2004. Organic production of leek (Allium porrum L.) seeds in the northeast of the Province of Buenos Aires. Spanish J. Agric. Res. 2:564-569.
9. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
10. Real Academia Española Diccionario de la lengua española (on-line resource). (Dicc Lengua Espanola)
11. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
12. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986- (Eur Gard F)
13. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)
14. Yanagino, T. et al. 2003. Production and characterization of an interspecific hybrid between leek and garlic Theor. Appl. Genet. 107:1-5.

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=2351. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.