| Scientific Name: | Allium moly |
| Common Name: | lily leek, yellow garlic |
| Family Name: | Amaryllidaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Cut flower or foliage, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Rock garden, Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Basal, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Distinctive smell, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Yellow, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, strap-like, with onion smell, 20-35cm long x 3-6cm wide; flowers bright yellow, star-shaped with 6 tepals and stamens, in umbels 4-7cm wide, on leafless peduncles ~30cm long in June. | |