Botanical Name: Allium moly
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Common Name: Golden Garlic  
Plant photo of: Allium moly
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Perennial, Bulb

 

Height Range

1-3'

 

Flower Color

Yellow

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Grey Green

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

n/a

Information by: Stephanie Duer
Photographer: Linda Engstrom

  • Description

  • Notes

Golden garlic is an ornamental flowering onion with star-shaped, half-inch, bright yellow flowers in loose clusters on leafless 9 to 15 inch-tall stalks. Blooms in late spring, and has flat, tulip-like, blue-green, basal leaves. All parts of this plant have an oniony smell when cut or bruised, however this plant is generally considered to be a non-edible ornamental. Also commonly called lily leek and golden garlic. Use in a perennial or shrub border.