Taxon: Allium scorodoprasum L.

Genus:

Allium

Subgenus:

Allium

Section:

Allium

Family:

Amaryllidaceae

Subfamily:

Allioideae

Tribe:

Allieae

Nomen number:

2373

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 1:297. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

01-jul-1996 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

Synonyms:

(=) Allium scorodoprasum var. viviparum Regel

Common names:

giant garlic (Source: Hortus 3) - English
sand leek (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
Spanish garlic (Source: Hortus 3) - English
Schlangenlauch (Source: Zander ed17) - German
skogslök (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Food additives: flavoring (formerly cultivated fide F Eur; Eur Gard F)
Weed: (fide Weed TabCIBA. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Turkey

Europe

NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
EASTERN EUROPE: Ukraine [Krym]
SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Romania
SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Naturalized

(natzd. elsewhere)

References:

Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables. 1974 (Weed TabCIBA)
Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988 (F Turk)
Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986- (Eur Gard F)

Check other web resources for Allium scorodoprasum 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=2373. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.