Nederlands: Daslook - Wilde knoflook
Español: Ajo de oso - Ajo de los osos
Français: Ail des ours - Ail sauvage
Deutsch: Bärlauch
Family: Alliaceae - Onion family
Flowering time: April-June
Height: 10-45cm
Altitude: to 1900m
Colour: white, six to twenty star-like flowers
Leaves: flat, narrow to broadly elliptical, bright green
Habitat: shady deciduous forests, scrub, hedgderows, stream banks
Distribution: most countries of Europe (up to southern Scandinavia)
Synonym: Allium ursinum subsp. ursinum
Notes: Allium ursinum is a wild relative of chives, all parts of the plant have a characteristic garlic or onion scent. Millions of bulbs may exist in one wood, and where there are masses their pungent scent can fill the air. The bulbs, flowers and leaves of Ramsons are edible. The leaves are similar to those of the Lily of the Valley, which are poisonous. Ramsons has become rare in Belgium where it is on the Red List of vascular plants of Flanders. Ramsons is an example of a plant that is native to a few regions in the Netherlands and that naturalized in other areas where it was introduced as a garden plant. It is said that introduction as a ornamental plant took place in 1561. In this country it is protected species but it is not on the Dutch Red List of vascular plants.
Related key words: Rotterdam, heemtuin Kralingse Bos, Botanische tuin Kralingen, stinsenplant, stinzenflora, Stinsenplanze, naturalized cultivar, plantes castrales, Vlaamse Rode Lijst, Pyrenees, Pyreneeën, Pirineos, Picos de Europa, insect, Savelsbos, Bunderbos, Dal van de Urft, Kalkeiffel (Nettersheim)
