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§1 Plant

Allium sativum L.

vernacular cultivated garlic — species · Liliaceae


USDA
ALSA2
GBIF
2856681
Rank
species
cultivated garlic (Allium sativum)
Platephotograph · willem9CC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Liliaceae Juss.
Genus
Allium
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 121 counties across 16 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 121 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 121 counties across 16 states/territories.

Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 20 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 24 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 9 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ALSA2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2856681 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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