Soon the woods will have carpets of attractive wild garlic flowers but around here the few-flowered garlic  (Allium paradoxum) is already is in flower.  The leaves are much narrower than the wild garlic and it seldom has more than one flower which is replaced by tiny little pale yellow bulbils before dropping off and growing into new plants.  Like the wild garlic it is also good for adding to food although the garlic taste is not as strong.  The few-flowered garlic is very invasive and can quickly smother the natural vegetation so it is illegal to plant it.  It is fairly common in damp places and beside rivers and in rough pasture especially in eastern and southern Scotland and parts of eastern England but has spread further

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