Allium sativum, known as garlic, from William Pickled crab apples, Medical Botany, 1793. Allium sativum is a perennial flowering plant growing from a bulb. The leaf blade is flat, linear, solid, and approximately 1.
The plant may produce pink to purple flowers from July to September in the Northern Hemisphere. Identification of the wild progenitor of common garlic is difficult due to the sterility of its many cultivars, which limits the ability to cross test with wild relatives. Allium sativum grows in the wild in areas where it has become naturalized. There are two subspecies of A.
