LILIACEAE (LILY FAMILY) 
MEADOW GARLIC 
Allium canadénse, L. 
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Native. Perennial. Propagates by aérial bulblets, occasionally by 
seeds. 
Time of bloom: May to June. 
Seeds: Seldom produced ; aérial bulblets ripen in July and August. 
Range: Maine to Minnesota, southward to the Gulf of Mexico. 
Habitat: Moist meadows, pastures, and thickets. 
The range of native species of Onion or Garlic is more extensive, 
but not one of them is so rank in taste and odor, or so difficult to 
exterminate, as the immigrant Field Garlic. Most 
of them have a preference for low, moist soil and 
the shade of thickets, and disappear before drain- 
age and cultivation. This one is most adaptive 
and therefore most troublesome. Its bulblets 
are slightly larger than grains of wheat or rye, so 
that they are not difficult of removal with a sieve 
of proper-sized mesh. But often the weed is a 
plague of pasture and meadow, to the detriment 
of dairy products. (Fig. 44.) 
Bulb small, distinguishable from that of the 
Field Garlic by its coat, which is fibrous and netted 
instead of a soft, membranous skin, and by the 
leaves, which rise directly from the bulb instead 
of being borne part of the way up the flowerstalk, 
and are flattened in cross section. Flowerstalk 
eight inches to two feet in height, round, and 
smooth; umbel large, the flowers pink, sometimes 
_ almost white, very numerous. Aérial bulblets 
ovoid, plump, their capillary appendage sometimes 
exceeding an inch in length. 
Measures for extermination the same as recom- 
mended for Field Garlic. 
SAW BRIER 
Smilaz glatica, Walt. 
Fie. 44. — 
Meadow Garlic 
(Allium — cana- 
dense). XX. 
Other English names: Chain Brier, Prickly Bamboo, False Sarsa- 
parilla. 
Native. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by tubers. 
