RAMSONS or WILD GRALIC
Allium ursinum
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Ramsons or wild gralic is found in damp woods and hedgerows, including beech woods where it often grows with bluebells. and red campion. It is often found in thousands.

The plant grows to a height of between 15cm and 38cm (6-15 inches) high and its clusters of star-shaped white flowers appear from April to June. The leaves on their long stalks are similar in shape to those of the lily-of-the-valley.

It is the only native British plant whose leaf-stalk is twisted through 180 degrees.

Ramsons, related to culinary garlic, was used as a herb until the familiar garlic we know was brought to England from the Mediterannean. The leaves are edible although the root is slightly toxic. In former times known as bear's garlic (hence it's Latin name 'ursinum' - bear) and buckram's and was the subject of a proverb;-

Eat leches in lide and ramsins in May, And all year after physitians may play.

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