Skip to content

Plants › amaryllis, onions, and allies

Society Garlic

Tulbaghia violacea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) cloo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 31, February 37, March 30, April 172, May 40, June 4, July 2, August 3, September 17, October 42, November 27, December 27.
South Africa432
United States246
Western Cape177
Texas119
Eastern Cape86
Gauteng70
KwaZulu-Natal68
Spain48
Australia24
Cataluña/Catalunya21

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Classmonocots · Liliopsida
OrderAgaves, Orchids, Irises, and Allies · Asparagales
Familyamaryllis, onions, and allies · Amaryllidaceae
GenusWild Garlics · Tulbaghia

Study it in a deck

Or build your own from the species near you.

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Society Garlic with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.