A perennial from bulblets that emits a strong garlic or onion smell when crushed. Primarily a weed of small grains, turfgrass and pastures. Wild garlic imparts a garlic-like flavor and odor on dairy and beef products when grazed. Found throughout the eastern and central United States.
All leaves have a garlic-like or onion scent.
Flowering stems are the only stems that occur. These are slender, solid, waxy, unbranched, and 1-3 feet tall. Produced at the top of the flowering stems. Flowers are greenish-white, small, and on short stems above the globe of aerial bulblets. Aerial bulblets are ovoid, often wholly or partially replace the flowers, and are usually tipped by a long, fragile slender green leaf.