Taxon: Allium sativum L. var. sativum

Genus:

Allium

Subgenus:

Allium

Section:

Allium

Family:

Amaryllidaceae

Subfamily:

Allioideae

Tribe:

Allieae

Nomen number:

315611

Place of publication:

Link to protologue:

Comment:

[or A. sativum Common Garlic Group]

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

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

common garlic (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
ail blanc (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
ail cultivé (Source: L Noms French ed6) - French
echter Knoblauch (Source: Zander ed17) - German
alho-bravo (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
alho-comum (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
alho-hortense (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

Food additives: flavoring (fide Crop Prod Sci Hort 3:10. 1994)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

Africa

Africa

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Turkey
CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia]
SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation-Far East [Far East]
CHINA: China

Asia-Tropical

PAPUASIA: Papua New Guinea
INDO-CHINA: Indochina
MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines

Europe

Europe

Northern America

North America

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Central America
South America

References:

Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:10.
Demilly, D. et al. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 6. 1996 (L Noms French ed6)
Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. 1993- (F NAmer)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)

Check other web resources for Allium sativum L. var. sativum :

Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
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=315611. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.