Some similarities to : Crow Garlic (Allium vineale) - see below.

Uniquely identifiable characteristics

Distinguishing Feature :

Fairly rare. Grows in fields, road verges and other grassy places in Notts, Yorkshire, Middlesbro', Teeside, parts of Cumbria, missing out much of Lancs. Also around Worcester, Sumerset, Devon & small parts of Kent.

Un-like Crow Garlic (Allium vineale) which has purple flowers with protruding stamens, Field Garlic has off-white creamy flowers which can be tinged pink, green or brown and the stamens do not protrude out of the flower (stamens shorter than tepals). Both those have cup-shaped flowers and two papery bracts, but in the case of Field Garlic, the bract is much longer - but shorter than the bracts of Keeled Garlic (Allium carinatum). Field Garlic never has just flowers only and only rarely bulbils only. The flowers have 6 tepals 5-7mm long, as do all species of Allium, but un-like Three-Cornered Garlic (Allium triquestrum or Few-Flowered Garlic (Allium paradoxum) they are not trumpet-flared. Filaments (stamens) are simple.

The sten is round, glaucous green, with only slight ridges and is often hollow. The leaves are (usually) of D-shaped (semi-cylindrical) cross-section.