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§1 Plant

Allium ampeloprasum L.

vernacular broadleaf wild leek — species · Liliaceae


USDA
ALAM
GBIF
2856037
Rank
species
broadleaf wild leek (Allium ampeloprasum)
Platephotograph · Greg HollandCC BY-ND source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Allium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 83 counties across 9 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 83 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 83 counties across 9 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 5 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 9 I
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 21 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 22 I
New York view state ↗ 1 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 I
Virginia view state ↗ 7 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ALAM ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2856037 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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