Other conspecific taxa:

• Allium ampeloprasum (1 accessions)
• Allium ampeloprasum var. babingtonii (0 accessions)

Synonyms:

• (=) Allium ampeloprasum var. combazianum Maire

Common names:

• great-head garlic  (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
• Levant garlic  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• wild leek  (Source: Hortus 3) - English
• ail d'orient  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Ackerknoblauch  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Sommerlauch  (Source: Zander ed17) - German

Economic Importance:

• Food additives: flavoring (fide Crop Prod Sci Hort 3:11. 1994)
• Human food: vegetable (only bulbs used fide Food Feed Crops US; Pl Res SEAs 8:62. 1993)
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of leek (fide Theor Appl Genet 94:470. 1997)
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of garlic (fide Theor Appl Genet 107:1. 2003)
• Weed: (fide Rev sect Allium 69. 1996)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Egypt, Libya (n.), Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Egypt, [Sinai] Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom (s.)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France, Portugal, Spain (incl. Baleares)


Cultivated

Africa

• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Reunion

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Turkey

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India (n.w.)
• INDO-CHINA: Indochina

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia

Europe

• EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part]
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Greece

Northern America

• Mexico, United States

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile


Naturalized

Northern America

• NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [New York (Suffock Co.), Ohio, West Virginia]
• NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Oklahoma]
• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]

References:

1. Brewster, J. L. 1994. Onions and other vegetable alliums Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 3:11.
2. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 (Zander ed17)
3. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993 (Econ Pl Aust)
4. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
5. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
6. Mathew, B. A review of Allium sect. Allium. 1996 (Rev sect Allium)
7. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
8. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 (F Eur)
9. 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=400394. Accessed 12 marzo 2026.