Family:
Liliaceae
Common Name(s):
Wild leek
Flowering Time:
June to July (after leaves have gone dormant)
Fruit/Seed Maturation Sign:
Seeds turn blue/black
Fruit/Seed Collection Dates:
November - December
Seed Cleaning:
None required
Storage:
Dry
Restoration Potential:
Medium
Notes
High germination following spring from seed collected in fall, stored cold, dry and planted in woods in May; excellent field survival to year 2 (Mottl personal communication).
Seed output 25-100/plant (Barkely 1986, Gleason and Cronquist 1991).
bulb up to 2 inches long bulb; spreads vegetatively forming colonies (Runkel and Bull 2009).
