Taxon: Allium ursinum L. Genus: Allium Subgenus: Amerallium Section: Arctoprasum
Family: Alliaceae. Also placed in: Liliaceae
Nomen number: 2413.
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:300. 1753.
Name verified on: 16-Jan-2007 by Systematic Botany Laboratory. Last updated: 23-Jan-2007.
Species priority site is: Plant Gene Resources of Canada (PGRC).
NO ACCESSIONS IN PGRC UNDER THIS NAME.


Common names:

• bear garlic (Source: Cornucopia )
  
• buckrams (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• gypsy onion (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• hog garlic (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• ramsons (Source: Cornucopia )
  
• wood garlic (Source: Zander ed17)
  
• ail des bois (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) [French]
  
• ail des ours (Source: Herbal Drugs ) [French]
  
• Bärenlauch (Source: Zander ed14 ) [German]
  
• Bärlauch (Source: Zander ed17) [German]
  
• Barlauchkraut (Source: Herbal Drugs ) [German]
  
• Ramsel (Source: Herbal Drugs ) [German]
  
• Waldknoblauch (Source: Herbal Drugs ) [German]
  
• Zigeunerlauchkraut (Source: Herbal Drugs ) [German]
  
• See MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts.

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbal Drugs; CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weeds (invasive in gardens fide Dict Gard)
  

Distributional range: Native:

• Asia-Temperate: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia; Turkey
• Europe: Austria; Belgium; Bulgaria; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; Finland; France [incl. Corsica]; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Romania; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Yugoslavia

References:

reftitle = :Baileya; a quarterly journal of horticultural taxonomy. Ithaca, NY.: abbr = :Baileya:
• Moore, H. E., Jr. 1954. Baileya 2:113.
  reftitle = :Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.: abbr = :Cornucopia:
• S. Facciola. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. (Cornucopia)
  reftitle = :European garden flora.: abbr = :Eur Gard F:
• S. M. Walters et al., eds. 1986-. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)
  reftitle = :Flora SSSR.: abbr = :F USSR:
• V. L. Komarov et al., eds. 1934-1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  reftitle = :Flora europaea.: abbr = :F Eur:
• T. G. Tutin et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  reftitle = :Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis.: abbr = :Herbal Drugs:
• N. G. Bisset, ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs) [medicinal].
  reftitle = :Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis.: abbr = :Herbal Drugs:
• N. G. Bisset, ed. 1994. Herbal drugs and phytopharmaceuticals. A handbook for practice on a scientific basis. (Herbal Drugs)
  reftitle = :Herbertia. Orlando, FL.: abbr = :Herbertia:
• Stearn, W. T. 1944. Notes on the genus Allium in the Old World. In: Herbertia 11:11-34.
  reftitle = :Hortus third.: abbr = :Hortus 3:
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  reftitle = :Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND).: abbr = :Pl Names:
• M. H. Porcher et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND). (Pl Names)
  reftitle = :The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992: abbr = :Dict Gard:
• A. Huxley, ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
  reftitle = :World economic plants: a standard reference.: abbr = :World Econ Pl:
• J. H. Wiersema & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference. (World Econ Pl)
  reftitle = :Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, ed. 13.: abbr = :Zander ed13:
• F. Encke et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, ed. 13. (Zander ed13)
  

Check other databases for Allium ursinum:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)