Allium angulosum

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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| name = Mouse garlic

| taxon = Allium angulosum

| parent = Allium subg. Rhizirideum

| image = Allium angulosum (Alliaceae) flowers.JPG

| authority =L. 1753 not All. 1785 nor Krock. 1787 nor Lour. 1790 nor DC. 1805 nor Pursh. 1813

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|Allium acutangulum Schrad.

|Allium acutangulum var. senescens Nyman

|Allium angulare Pall.

|Allium angulatum Pall.

|Allium angulosum Krock.

|Allium angulosum var. danubiale (Spreng.) Trevir.

|Allium angulosum var. latifolium Regel

|Allium angulosum subsp. latifolium (Regel) K.Richt.

|Allium calcareum Wallr.

|Allium danubiale Spreng.

|Allium flavescens var. stramineum Nyman

|Allium inodorum Willd.

|Allium laxum G.Don

|Allium lusitanicum F.Delaroche

|Allium microcephalum Willd. ex Kunth

|Allium odorum Kar. & Kir.

|Allium reticulatum Wallr.

|Allium senescens Suter

|Allium stramineum Schur

|Allium triquetrum Schrad. ex Schult. & Schult.f.

|Allium uliginosum Kanitz

|Cepa angulosa (L.) Bernh.

|Maligia fastigiata Raf.

|Xylorhiza angulosa (L.) Salisb.

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|synonyms_ref=[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-295009 The Plant List]

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Allium angulosum, the mouse garlic, is a species of garlic native to a wide region of central Europe and northern Asia, from France and Italy to Siberia and Kazakhstan.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=295009 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+angulosum Altervista Flora Italiana, Schede di Botanica, Allium angulosum]

Allium angulosum is a perennial herb up to 50 cm tall. Bulbs are narrow and elongated, about 5 mm in diameter. The plant produces a hemispherical umbel of small pink flowers on long pedicels.Linnaeus, Carl. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 300.