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 about 30cm long in June.