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Alium ursinum
If you don’t immediately see it, you can usually smell it – wild garlic has a strong oniony scent that becomes stronger if you crush the leaves. It is a favourite with foragers but be sure not to eat the roots: eating them can have an unpleasant effect on the stomach.
Common across the UK apart from north-east Scotland.
Damp woodland
When in bloom, April to June.
‘Ramsons’ is an evolution of the plant’s Old English name: hramsa. The plural of hramsa was hramsan – so ‘ramsons’ is actually a double plural!
Wild Garlic Dorset roadside, image by Joe Costley
Wild garlic in Old Sulehay woods, image byDonna Radley
Wild Garlic, image by Lizzie Wilberforce
Hyacinthoides non-scripta
Ajuga reptans
Primula Veris
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