Short to medium plant, often forming extensive colonies. Leaves 2 or 3 flat, bright green and smelling powerfully of garlic when bruised. Flowers white, starry 12 to 20 mm in a fairly dense, rounded umbel.

Indicator Species - Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland Local Nature Recovery Strategy.

Shaded places, woods, ditches, hedge banks.

April to June.

Perennial.

Fairly frequent throughout much of Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 56 of the 617 tetrads.