Hirsute Garlic - Allium trifoliatum
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Species Description
Sparse and very rare in the South (only 6 records according to NBN). Other names include: Pink Garlic.
Stace 4:
Allium trifoliatum Cyr. - Hirsute Garlic.
Differs from A. subhirsutum in pedicels 1.5-3x as long as tepals; tepals usually tinged with pink; anthers yellowish; (2n=14, 28, 32). Neophyte-survivor; similar habitats to A. neopolitanum but rarer; found in East Sussex 2001, Wight 2014, North Hampshire 2017, but perhaps overlooked for A. subhirsutum; Mediterranean.
Key:
- Inflorescence consisting entirely of flowers
- Leaves obviously bifacial, not to strongly keeled
- Tepals white to pink, greenish or purplish, sometimes dull brownish-yellow
- Leaves without petiole, linear to filiform
- Stem more or less circular in section
- Ovary superior
- Filaments simple
- Leaves conspicuously hairy at edge
- Pedicels 1.5-3x as long as tepals; tepals usually tinged with pink; anthers yellowish