Keeled Garlic (Allium carinatum)
Medium, hairless and unbranched, smelling strongly on garlic, growing from a bulb. Leaves long and thin, grass-like, grooved, with a 'keel' beneath, up to middle of stem. Flowers pink-purple, blunt-petalled, with stamens protruding, long-stalked in a loose cluster, usually mixed with bulbils; July-August.

One of our rarities. One small group on right of roadway beyond car park.

Spotters' score: 8

ref: p.276/5

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Keeled Garlic