Allium oleraceum
Cabbage and leek (Allium oleraceum )
The cabbage and leek (Allium oleraceum ), also vegetables and leek or leek Ross- called, is a species of the genus Allium (Allium ). Despite the name, cabbage and leek, the plant is hardly used as wild vegetables or soup seasoning, as the leaves wither early and the stem is relatively hard, which has earned him the name Ross leeks.
Description
The cabbage and leek is a herbaceous plant, reaching a height of 20 to 70 centimeters. It forms one or more ovoid onions, which are about 1.2 to 2 inches long and reach a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters. The outer skin is brown to greyish, the inner bulb scales are white to light brown. The stems are tough, the leaves are half-round or plump flat, rinnig, but not tubular. They are 5 millimeters wide, the bottom is rough, flowering time, they are usually withered. As inflorescences loose umbels note of a few reddish or greenish white single flowers are formed. The bracts are longer than the inflorescence. The bell-shaped flowers are 5-8 mm long, the stamens have no lateral teeth. The flower stems are two to four inches long. Between the flowers dark red bulbils are visible, with only the bulbils can be formed. The flowering season lasts from June to August.
Distribution and habitat requirements
The cabbage and leek is distributed with the exception of Western Europe throughout Europe. The natural range extends from Norway to Sicily and from France to the European part of Russia and the Caucasus. In other areas it has been naturalized to find them now, for example, in New England on roadsides and ruderal areas. The species grows on dry grass, in hedges, on vineyards, to protect walls and on railway gravels. Rarely do you find them on wet meadows. It grows scattered on base-rich and some nitrogen-containing, loose soils and missing on calcium-poor soils.
System
The cabbage and leek is one species in the genus Allium (Allium ). There he is counted to the section Codonoprasum in the subgenus Allium.
More in part only regional common names for the cabbage and leek are or were: field garlic, field garlic, wäld Knobläng ( Transylvania) and Knufflok ( Altmark).