Taxonomy
Allium ampeloprasum | Wild Leek | Cainneann
Distribution
Status
Conservation status
Not protected
Native status
Native or Alien
Species Biology
Habitat
Rocky and sandy ground and waste places
Life cycle
Perennial
Ex-situ conservation
Seed accessions in the National Genebank, Backweston (wild seed collected in 2009)
Use
Food crop
Vegetative nature
Herbaceous
Temporal change
Records submitted to Data Centre in 2025
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Further information
Probably an ancient introduction.Used in past as a leek or flavouring. Similar, and most likely the ancester of the cultivated culinary leek (Allium porrum).