Allium tricoccum

Ramps, Wild Leek

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Family: Amaryllidaceae

Mid-Atlantic bloom time: June - July
Mid-Atlantic fruit ripe: August - September

Ramps are a species of wild onion. The leaves emerge in early spring, then die back as the flower stalks emerge. The dark seeds remain into autumn.

Both the leaves and the lower white leaf stalks are edible.




11 April 2018
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
3 April 2019
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
24 March 2016
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
11 April 2018
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
3 April 2019
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
(floodplain with Ramps)
25 June 2014
Scotts Run Nature Preserve, McLean, VA
(flower heads)
7 October 2015
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
(seed heads)
7 October 2015
Riverbend Park, Great Falls, VA
(seed head)




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