Cabbage leek

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Cabbage leek
Cabbage leek (Allium oleraceum)

Cabbage leek ( Allium oleraceum )

Systematics
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae)
Subfamily : Leek family (Allioideae)
Tribe : Allieae
Genre : Leek ( allium )
Type : Cabbage leek
Scientific name
Allium oleraceum
L.

The cabbage leek ( Allium oleraceum ), also called vegetable leek or horse leek , is a species of the genus leek ( Allium ). Despite the name cabbage leek, the plant is rarely used as a wild vegetable or soup seasoning, as the leaves wither early and the stem is comparatively hard, which is what earned it the name Ross leek.

inflorescence
blossom
Bulbils
Tepals with stamens (inside view)

description

The cabbage leek is a perennial herbaceous plant and reaches a height of 20 to 70 centimeters. It forms one or more egg-shaped bulbs that are about 1.2 to 2 centimeters long and 1 to 1.5 centimeters in diameter. The outer skin is brown to grayish, the inner onion skins are white to light brown. The stems are hard, the leaves are semicircular or thick, flat, runny, but not tubular. They become 5 millimeters wide, the underside is rough, and they are usually withered during flowering.

The inflorescences are loose umbels from a few reddish or greenish-white single flowers. The bracts are longer than the inflorescence. The flower stalks are 2 to 4 inches long. Dark red bulbs are visible between the flowers, although only the bulbs can be formed. The bell-shaped flowers are 5 to 8 millimeters long, the stamens have no lateral teeth.

The flowering period lasts from June to August.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 32 or 40.

Distribution and location requirements

The cabbage leek is widespread across Europe with the exception of Western Europe. The natural range extends from Norway to Sicily and from France to the European part of Russia and the Caucasus . It was naturalized in other areas; it is now also found in New England, for example, on roadsides and ruderal areas .

The cabbage leek grows on dry lawns, on hedges, on vineyards, on protective walls and on railway gravel. It is rarely found on wet meadows. It grows scattered on base-rich and somewhat nitrogenous, loose soils and is absent on soils poor in lime. It is a Festuco Brometea class character in Central Europe. In the Allgäu Alps, it rises in the Tyrolean part on the Häselgehrberg near Häselgehr up to 1220 meters above sea level.

Systematics

The cabbage leek is a species in the genus leek ( Allium ). There it is counted to the section Codonoprasum in the subgenus Allium .

Others are part or even regional common names for the cabbage and leek were: field garlic , field garlic , Wäld Knobläng ( Transylvania ) and Knufflok ( Altmark ).

See also

literature

  • Dietmar Aichele, Marianne Golte-Bechtle: What is blooming there? 57th edition. Kosmos, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-440-10212-2 , pp. 120 .
  • Thomas Schauer, Claus Caspari: The FSVO plant guide for on the go . 2nd, revised edition. BLV, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8354-0354-3 , p. 342 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Allium oleraceum in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Aichele, Golte-Bechtle: What is blooming there?
  3. ↑ a b Dale W. McNeal Jr., TD Jacobsen: Allium. In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee (Ed.): Flora of North America North of Mexico . Volume 26: Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales . Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford a. a. 2002, ISBN 0-19-515208-5 , Allium oleraceum, p. 238 (English, online ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Schauer, Caspari: The FSVO plant guide for on the go
  5. ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas . With the collaboration of Angelika Schwabe and Theo Müller. 8th, heavily revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , pp.  130 .
  6. ↑ Erhard Dörr, Wolfgang Lippert : Flora of the Allgäu and its surroundings. Volume 1, IHW, Eching 2001, ISBN 3-930167-50-6 , p. 350.
  7. ^ Georg August Pritzel , Carl Jessen : The German folk names of plants. New contribution to the German linguistic treasure. Philipp Cohen, Hannover 1882, p. 18, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

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