Three pointed leek?

It's Allium triquetrum and we have it instead of grass its horrible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_triquetrum

I'm happy to dig it up and send it to people for postage :D

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I know it as 3 Cornered Leek

 

I love wild garlic. I wouldn't say its abundantly available in winter though, at least not round here. Late winter possibly, certainly by early spring.

I sometimes use it in soups, and occasionally just raw in salad sarnies.

A word of caution though, there is another native plant that grows in the same habitat, appears around the same time, looks very similar, and is poisonous. The poisonous one has slightly waxy leaves and no scent. As a safety check when I harvest wild garlic I always bruise some of the leaves to check that they smell of garlic. Its less of a problem once the flowers come out, because the flowers are very different between the two plants.

 

I have eaten it before it's quite nice in an omelette but yes it is very invasive we cleared a lot of undergrowth in our garden and a few trees and literally everywhere we cleared is know covered in the stuff and it stinks! Mum ignored me and mowed it the other day and you can still smell it two weeks later and I'm seriously considering buying a new mower...

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Everywhere I know that wild garlic thrives is damp dappled shade. Usually under the shelter of deciduous trees. It'll probably not go crazy under conifers but if it does, you can always dig some out and send it to me