Allium moly
Common name
yellow garlic
Family
Alliaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Herbs - Monocots
Conservation status
Not applicable
Flower colours
Yellow
Year naturalised
2006
Etymology
allium: Possibly from the Latin word for garlic or the Celtic word all ‘pungent’ or ‘burning’
Reason For Introduction
Ornamental
Life Cycle Comments
Bulbous perennial plant
Reproduction
By daughter offsets from bulbs and by seed
Seed
Small, long-lived in seed bank.
Dispersal
Presumably as a garden discard from which it may spread vegetatively from daughter bulb offsets and by seed which germinates freely