Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
In the shade, grey periwinkles wind among the snowy drift of allium.
The Cornhill Magazine, 1866. (Simpson and Weiner 1989)
Wild garlic (Allium vineale L.), also called crow garlic in many English-speaking countries, is a perennial weed with a particularly noxious reputation. Although a native of Eurasia, it has found an especially suitable home in the eastern United States, among other places. Wild garlic has little redeeming value despite its similarity to cultivated garlic (Allium sativum L.). The property of wild garlic of passing its excessively strong flavor to food is infamous among dairymen and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) growers, for whom contamination by the weed causes a serious reduction in product quality (Anonymous 1975; Holm et al. 1991; Iltis 1949).
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