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Wild Garlic

Allium canadense

Wild garlic is a widespread native onion with nodding pink-white flower clusters and edible bulbs and leaves, an easy, deer-resistant bulb for meadows and woodland edges. As with every onion, keep it to normal culinary amounts and keep it away from dogs, which are unusually susceptible to the genus.

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Type

wildflower

Lifespan

perennial

Height

0.67–1.5 ft

Spacing

0.5–1 ft apart

Light

sun

Soil moisture

moist

Soil pH

neutral

Bloom

May, June, July

Bloom colors

white, pink

Wildlife value

pollinators

Landscape uses

naturalizing

Native states

AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV