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Allium tricoccum on the left and A. burdickii on the right. Distinct species! They’ll occasionally occur at the same site (one almost always much more common than the other) and when they do, such as a woods I was in it’s a great chance to compare the two. Allium tricoccum has much wider leaves with a distinctly red petiole against A. burdickii’s narrow leaves and white-green petioles. Wild leek leaves are ephemeral and senesce by summer but their bloom time and flowers can help differentiate them too: A. tricoccum blooms in July/August with 20-40+ flowers per umbel and overall seems to be the more commonly seen species; A. burdickii blooms in June with 10-20 flowers per umbel and usually more uncommon. Pretty distinct differences if you ask me and in my experience intermediates even in mixed colonies are rare. Some still think they’re one variable species and I say hogwash.