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Pictures of Ohio plant needing identification
I need help with identification of the Ohio field plant pictured at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpal/. It was found in a meadow by a bridge near many wild pea flowers. The one I would like to identify has the white pointed bulbs on the ends of stalks. |
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Pictures of Ohio plant needing identification
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Carol Paliwoda wrote: I need help with identification of the Ohio field plant pictured at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpal/. It was found in a meadow by a bridge near many wild pea flowers. The one I would like to identify has the white pointed bulbs on the ends of stalks. It's garlic, Allium sativum, a rocambole or hardneck form. The stalks will straighten and the structure on top will develop into a bunch of tiny topsets, sometimes with abortive flowers. When the topsets dry they will drop off and grow into a single clove the following year, and a small bulb the year after, also putting up a stalk with topsets. You can go back later this summer and dig up the small bulbs and eat them or plant cloves to get more bulbs next year. The topsets can become a bit of a pest in the garden, but you can eat the young plants from them in the spring as 'green garlic', just like green onions. Garlic is an old world plant, not native to Ohio. Most garlic varieties for cold climates are hardneck forms like this. The 'hard neck' is the remains of the stalk. Warm climate garlics are usually softneck forms. They don't put up a stalk. |
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