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Wild Garlic
Wild Garlic
Also known as: ramsons, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek
Low concern
Wild garlic is a traditional edible plant. The principal safety risk is misidentification with toxic look-alikes (lily of the valley, autumn crocus, false hellebore) which have caused severe and even fatal poisonings in foragers.
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What it is
Wild garlic (Allium ursinum), a wild-growing relative of cultivated garlic; both leaves and bulbs are edible.
Whole-food culinary herb/vegetable.
Why it's flagged
- Forager misidentification risk with toxic look-alikes
What regulators actually say
"Toxic plant ingestions ... wild garlic (Allium ursinum) can be confused with leaves of lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) ... resulting in cardiac glycoside poisoning."
Regulatory status
United States — FDA
Whole food
European Union — EFSA
Whole food
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