Vegetable
Wild Leek
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Wild leek is the older English name for ramps: same Allium tricoccum, same woods, same cook-the-leaves-and-bulbs habit. Appalachian tables used this name before restaurant "ramps." A skillet with eggs. Latin is the identity leaf.
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Appalachian NameForageNot A Different PlantOlder WordSame RampSpringStrongWoods
History
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Appalachian and woodland cooks called Allium tricoccum wild leek.
Restaurant ramps overtook wild leek as the fashionable name.
Both names persisted; conservation talk used both.