View source for Alliaria

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Alliaria
|accepted_authority=Heister ex Fabricius
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Enum.,
|place=161. 1759
|year=1759
}}
|common_names=Garlic mustard
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Brassicaceae;Brassicaceae tribe Thlaspideae;Alliaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Brassicaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Brassicaceae tribe Thlaspideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Alliaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Genus Allium, garlic or onion, and Latin –aria, connection, alluding to odor of crushed plant
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=page 234, 246
|treatment_page=page 744
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with garlic smell when crushed; not scapose; glabrous or pubescent, trichomes simple. <b>Stems</b> erect [decumbent], often branched distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate; basal (often withered by anthesis or fruiting), rosulate, long-petiolate, blade margins crenate, dentate, or sinuate; cauline shortly petiolate, blade margins dentate. <b>Racemes</b> elongated in fruit. <b>Fruiting</b> pedicels divaricate or ascending, stout (almost as broad as fruit [slender, narrower than fruit]). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals erect, oblong, lateral pair not saccate basally, (glabrous); petals oblanceolate, (longer than sepals), claw obscurely differentiated from blade, (apex obtuse); stamens slightly tetradynamous; filaments not dilated basally; anthers ovate or oblong, (apex obtuse); nectar glands confluent, subtending bases of stamens. <b>Fruits</b> siliques, sessile, linear [oblong], torulose or subtorulose, terete, subterete, or 4-angled; valves each with prominent midvein and distinct marginal veins, glabrous [scabrous]; replum rounded; septum complete; ovules [4–]6–22 per ovary; style obsolete or distinct (to 6 mm); stigma capitate, entire. <b>Seeds</b> plump, not winged, oblong; seed coat (longitudinally striate), not mucilaginous when wetted; cotyledons incumbent.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Eurasia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Alliaria</i> brachycarpa M. Bieberstein is endemic to Caucasus.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=cavers1979a
|text=Cavers, P. B., M. I. Heagy, and R. F. Kokron. 1979. The biology of Canadian weeds. 35. Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara and Grande. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 59: 217–229.
}}
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Alliaria
|author=Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz
|authority=Heister ex Fabricius
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Brassicaceae
|distribution=Eurasia;n Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=cavers1979a
|publication title=Enum.,
|publication year=1759
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V7/V7_1310.xml
|tribe=Brassicaceae tribe Thlaspideae
|genus=Alliaria
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Brassicaceae tribe Thlaspideae]]