Ramp

Allium tricoccum, the ramp or wild leek, is a perennial bulbous herb of the family Amaryllidaceae forming colonies in rich, mesic deciduous forests across eastern North America from Quebec and Ontario south to Georgia and Tennessee. Each plant arises from a clustered narrow ovoid bulb 2-6 cm long with a fibrous tunic, producing two or three broad, flat, smooth, light green elliptic leaves 20-30 cm long that emerge in early spring, often with distinctive deep burgundy or purple-tinged petioles and bases. The leaves wither by midsummer; only then does a smooth, leafless flowering scape 10-40 cm tall appear, bearing a hemispherical umbel of small whitish to cream-coloured six-tepalled flowers, which give way to a cluster of three-lobed capsules containing shiny black seeds. All parts emit a strong onion-garlic aroma when bruised.