Allium vineale L.

Bulb globose to ovoid, to 3 × 2.5 cm, tunic whitish, membranous, easily separated at base, with several stipitate offset bulbs. Leaves sub-cylindric, hollow, slender, < scape, upper surface ± grooved. Scape erect, slender, 30–90cm high, sheathed for ½-⅓ its length. Umbels < 2 cm diam., with flowers and bulbils (), or more commonly with bulbils and without flowers (); pedicels several times > flowers; spathe-valve 1, soon decidous. Flowers c. 5 mm long, green to white, often purplish, campanulate; segments lanceolate, acute, keeled. Stamens exserted, each inner filament with 2 prominent lateral appendages > anther, outer 3 filaments simple. Capsule not seen.

[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]

Flowering: Oct.–Nov.