Purple flowered garlic with sleeping cap

The round garlic (Allium rotundum L., family Liliaceae) has stems of up to 90 cm in height, bearing pink or purple flowers. Its name derives from the large rounded umbels, which are 2-3 cm across. The umbels lack bulbils, but the underground bulb is usually surrounded by purplish-black bulbils with long stalks.
The Ponto-Hyrcanian Subprovince is the natural range of this species, which is most frequent in xerothermic grassland. However, its present range of distribution is much wider, as the.. more