Allium Species, False Garlic, Stag's Garlic, Crow Garlic, Wild Onion

It grows in the sun, it grows in the shade, it grows in moist areas, it grows in dry areas. Basically, it grows wherever it likes, regard...Read Moreless of what you think about it. But let's face it folks, this isn't exactly poison ivy.

While some may find A. vineale annoying, I don't find it a particularly alleopathic or an otherwise troubling intruder. What I do find are easily harvested bulbs in the springtime that add a tasty, healthy dose of garlic-like attributes to stir fries and stews. When the weeds give you lemons, make lemonade.

In a locale plagued with invasive Ligustrum, Nandina, Ornithogalum, and Mahonia, I'll take this one ... every time.

This is one of the most pestilential of weeds. It's an invasive exotic pest, native to Europe, and frequently confused with our native A....Read More canadense, which is much less often encountered. (A. canadense has flat leaves, A. vineale has round hollow leaves.) The flowering stems generally produce bulbils instead of flowers.

This species is summer dormant, putting up active leaves in both spring and fall. It often enters gardens hitchhiking on the root balls of nursery stock.

This is one of the most difficult of weeds to control, much less eradicate. It increases and spreads very rapidly. Yanking on the top growth snaps it off at soil level. The bulbs are generally deep, and attempts to dig it up just spread dormant hardshell bulblets around. Its hardshell bulblets can lie dormant five years or more. Its waxy leaves repel water and resist most herbicides.

There are many other fine garden alliums without this one's drawbacks. I don't know why anyone would cultivate it.

invasive
over $1000 invested in removal
All for nothing
Chokes out everything but trees
crosses streets and e...Read Morevery barrier you put up.
hoeing propagates it
composting propagates it
(only heat kills)

Just dug it out again, a mountainous pick-up load of infection. The millions of microscopic bulblets in the soil will come back as a carpet with the first drop of rain. Protect from rain perfectly for 5 yr before bulblets in soil no longer viable. A drop of rain in less than 5 yr, you only cultivated it on that parcel--comes back double every year.

It has been 16 yr of this that I know of, removing every year to no avail. A sink hole for your time. Death to your garden and your neighbors' gardens.

I wish I had something easy and delicate like Kudzu to battle instead.

Anybody who wants to start this one will leave this legacy to anyone who lives there forever.

I have never hated anyone enough to give them a start of this plant. Nobody around here is stupid enough to take it, they've got plenty of their own!

This is not slander. USDA invasive pest Florida and California.

Although it looks interesting in photo, in reality it’s not impresive. I won’t grow it again.