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Angled onion

Common weeds

Scientific name
Allium triquetrum
Description
Perennial herb, dying back annually to a round white bulb. Usually many bulblets beside the main bulb.
Weed category
Restricted weed
How to indentify
Strong smell, fleshy stripy leaves, slightly channelled, usually 2-5 per bulb. Flowers bell-shaped, white with a green central stripe on each petal. Fruit a round green capsule.
How it spreads
  • Regenerates from bulbs and seeds
  • Water
  • Mud
  • Machinery
Suggested plant replacement
Removal methods
Plant specific removal methods

Small infestations can be hand weeded ensuring to remove bulbs. Removal of flowers by mowing will prevent spread of seeds.

  Bright green grassy plant with small white bulb flowersSmall cluster of white flowers

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