Ramp (Allium tricoccum Aiton)
Also known as wild leek.
↑Range - Expand
| Legend | Color |
| Native | |
| Native or Not Present |
This tentative map is based on our own research. It may have limited data on Canada and/or Mexico, and there is some subjectivity in our assignment of plants as introduced vs. expanded. Read more in this blog post.
Although this plant occurs somewhere in each of these regions, it may only occur in a small part of some or all of them.
↑Uses
This species is not only edible, but considered very tasty, and widely consumed in some parts of the U.S. Unfortunately, there are very few growers of it, and nearly all the demand is met from wild harvesting, much of which is carried out unsustainably, in ways that both threaten the population of this species, and disrupt ecosystems in other ways, including exposing the soil and spreading invasive plants.
↑Related Plants
A less common plant, Allium burdickii, or narrowleaf wild leek, is sometimes treated as a subspecies of this species, and sometimes as a species of its own.
Numerous other Allium species, including both native and introduced varieties, overlap with this one in range, but they usually occur in sunnier habitats.
↑Notes
This plant prefers similar conditions to those in which the invasive plant garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) thrives, and is one of the many species negatively affected by that plant's spread.
↑Links & External Resources
• Allium tricoccum (Wild Leek) | Illinois Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum (Ramp) | USDA PLANTS Database (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum | Go Botany (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum | Biota of North America Project (BONAP) (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum | NatureServe Explorer (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum | Flora of North America (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum | Missouri Plants (About This Site)
• Ramps | Maryland Biodiversity Project (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum (Wild Leek) | Minnesota Wildflowers (About This Site)
• Allium tricoccum Ait. (Ramps, Wild Leek, Rampscallions) | Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora (About This Site)
