Ramsons (Bear's garlic, wild wood garlic)

Sensoric quality.
Similar to garlic, but less strong and with a hint of chives. Main constituents Similar to garlic, bears garlic contains a large number of sulphur compounds: divinyl sulfide, dimethyl thiosulfonate, methyl cystein sulfoxide and the latters degradation products, methyl allyl thiosulfonate and methanethiol. Origin Native to Western and Central Europe. In the USA, ramp (Allium tricoccum), a wild plant with more onion-like flavour, is used for similar purposes. Etymology English ramson (Old English hramsan) is of unclear origin; cognates are found in several Germanic (e.g., Swedish ramslök and regional German Ramsen) and Slavic languages (e.g., Russian cheremsha [черемша]). There are, however, a few possibly related words in other Indo-European tongues: Greek krommyon [κρόμμυον] “onion” and maybe Welsh craf “garlic”. With the apparent exception of Northern Germanic, many names of bears garlic in European tongues translate to “bears garlic”, “bears leek” or “bears onion”.

Eng.: Ramson, ramsons, bear's garlic, broad-leaved garlic, buckrams, gypsy onion, hog garlic, wild garlic, wild wood garlic, wood garlic.