Allium moschatum

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|name = Fly garlic

| image = Illustration from Les liliacées by Pierre Joseph Redouté (1759-1840). Digitally enhanced by rawpixel-com 100.jpg

| image_alt = "Allium moschatum" illustration from "Les liliacées" (1805) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

| image_caption = Allium moschatum illustration from Les liliacées (1805) by Pierre-Joseph Redouté

|taxon = Allium moschatum

|parent = Allium subg. Polyprason

|authority =L. 1753 not d'Urv. 1822 nor Moris 1827 nor Sint. ex Regel 1875

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|Allium capillare Cav.

|Allium cupani Guss

|Allium moschatum var. borzhomicum Miscz. ex Grossh.

|Allium setaceum Waldst. & Kit.

|Scorodon moschatum (L.) Fourr.

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Allium moschatum is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a range extending from Spain to Iran.[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=allium+moschatum Altervista Flora Italiana, Allium moschatum][http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=296063 Kew World Checklist for Selected Plant Families]

Allium moschatum is a bulb-forming perennial. Flowers are born in umbels on top of thin, wiry scapes rarely more than 15 cm tall; tepals white with a thin but prominent purple midvein.[http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/AlliumSpeciesTwo Pacific Bulb Society, Allium Species Two]

It usually grows in clearings of bushes, dry pastures and stony environments.{{Cite web|title=Herbario de Jaca|url=http://floragon.ipe.csic.es/biologia.php?cod_taxon=2990&genero=Allium&especie=moschatum&subespecie=&variedad=|access-date=2021-08-26|website=floragon.ipe.csic.es}}

;Formerly included

• Allium moschatum var. brevipedunculatum, now called Allium korolkowii
• Allium moschatum var. dubium, now called Allium korolkowii