Asparagus

Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable, a flouerin perennial plant species in the genus Asparagus. It wis ance clessifee'd in the lily faimily, lik its Allium cousins, ingans an garlic, but the Liliaceae hae been split an the ingan-lik plants are nou in the faimily Amaryllidaceae an asparagus in the Asparagaceae. Asparagus officinalis is native tae maist o Europe, northren Africae an wastren Asie, an is widely cultivatit as a vegetable crop. References