| Description | Ramps (Allium tricoccum) are ephemeral perennial wildflowers with edible leaves and small white, conical bulbs. Both the leaves and bulbs have a strong, pungent taste. |
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| Pronunciation | (AL-ee-um) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizoms, etc., Edibles Vegetables |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | They are ephemeral, so they like full sun in the spring and shaded as the trees leaf out. |
| Moisture | Grow best in moist soil |
| Soil & Site | Moist, organic soil. |
| Flowers | Flowers emerge from a papery sheath, forming a terminal umbel of white flowers. The scape is a smooth, leafless stalk. Each tiny flower has three sepals, three petals, and a papery bract at its base |
| Fruit | Forms spherical, black, shiny seeds that develop in each of the locules of the 3-celled seed capsules on a leafless stalk. The stalk may persist throughout the winter |
| Leaves | The leaves are green, broadly lance-shaped, and entire. They start tightly furled and then unroll. The petiole may be reddish. |
| Dimensions | Reaches about 8 inches tall, forming tight clumps. |
| Propagation | Can be propagated by seeds, divisions, or bulbs. " A warm, moist period is required to break root dormancy and a subsequent cold period to break shoot dormancy, so the seeds may have to go through two winters before seedlings appear in the spring if the initial fall season is not long and moist enough." (#284) |
| Native Site | Found in moist, Eastern North American forests, they thrive in shaded, moist, nutrient-rich, mature hardwood forests, often near streams, |
| Notes & Reference | #284-University of Wisconsin-Madison (hort.extension.wisc.edu), #274-Site Authors' observations in the wild of Allium tricoccum |
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