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Vascular Plant Herbarium

Vascular Plant Database Family Results

Category: Monocots
Family Name: Alliaceae

SPECIES

Allium - [maps | photos]

  • Allium burdickii (Hanes) A.G. Jones (TN Threatened -Commercially Exploited)
    Common Name: narrowleaf wild leek
    Synonyms:
             • Allium tricoccum Aiton var. burdickii Hanes
  • Allium canadense L.
    NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland -
    Common Name: meadow garlic
  • Allium cernuum Roth
    NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
    Common Name: nodding onion
  • Allium tricoccum Aiton (TN Special Concern -Commercially Exploited)
    NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
    Common Name: wild leek
  • Allium vineale * L.
    NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
    Common Name: wild garlic

Nothoscordum - [maps | photos]

  • Nothoscordum bivalve (L.) Britton
    NWI R2 TN: Facultative Upland
    Common Name: false garlic, crow poison
    Synonyms:
             • Allium bivalve (L.) Kuntze

*Non-native taxon known to be naturalized in Tennessee
All names & statuses follow the Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee (2015).
Click here for a description of rare, threatened, or endangered (RTE) status & National Wetland Indicator (NWI) status.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dr. Jessica M. Budke or Margaret Oliver.

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