Allium schoenoprasum
Chives, Giant Garlic, Wild Chives, Spanish garlic, Cives, Síobhas, Secglēac, Allium schoenoprasum
Description
A perennial aromatic bulbous plant, used in agribusiness as well as for phytotherapeutic and medicinal purposes due to its typically erect, cylindrical and hollow leaves with an intense but milder flavour than the other species belonging to the Allium genus ; the flowers, too, united in umbrella-shaped inflorescences carried at the top of the herbaceous stems, are often edible depending on the variety as well as being attractive to insects such as bees and bumblebees, of primary importance for pollination in your vegetable garden. Easy to manage, it does not require special care, adapting to different types of exposure and soil types as long as they are well drained.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Genus
- Allium
- Species
- Allium schoenoprasum
Synonyms (24)
- Allium acutum
- Allium alpinum
- Allium broteri
- Allium buhseanum
- Allium foliosum
- Allium gredense
- Allium idzuense
- Allium montanum
- Allium palustre
- Allium punctulatum
- Allium purpurascens
- Allium raddeanum
- Allium reflexum
- Allium riparium
- Allium sibiricum
- Allium tenuifolium
- Allium ubinicum
- Allium udinicum
- Ascalonicum schoenoprasum
- Cepa schoenoprasa
- Cepa tenuifolia
- Porrum schoenoprasum
- Porrum sibiricum
- Schoenoprasum vulgare
