It looks like my garlic chives - very prolific! I have never tried to preserve them; just tried to share with whoever would take some! lol

Just be sure every individual plant you use smells like onion or garlic. Crows Poison looks similar and is toxic. It doesn't have the same scent.

Wow great information, thank you all!

That fern-y looking thing in front of the wild garlic is yarrow! It will make white flowers. Both the leaves and flowers are medicinal.

To me it looks like old fashioned garlic that you often see growing "wild" around old house places. Any chance that is what has happened here? There are several bulbs in each clump because the seeds all came up in one place.

I agree with mulberryknob. A few years ago someone brought garlic to the Spring Fling. I think it was 4-6 small plants in each cup. I didn't have any garlic in my garden and didn't think the end of April was a great time to plant it, but decided to bring it home anyway. I did put it in the ground, but other things came up around it and I didn't even remember that it was there. That Fall I could still see some small plants there, but decided to leave them alone. The next year I pulled a couple and wondered why I had waited so long to add garlic because it was delicious. It has continued to spread out each year although I moved a couple of dozen plants to a new location last year. I didn't get it all moved so there are several bunches that look just like yours growing near the location where I had planted the original plants. I'm thinking I will try to move a few more. In addition, I brought home a couple of bags of garlic from the Mother Earth News Fair last Fall, but because of health issues I didn't even get them planted until February. I decided they couldn't grow if I didn't plant them (LOL) so I planted. They are also now up and growing so I think I will have plenty of garlic this year.

Even if your Feb planted garlic doesn't make full sized heads, just replant it in the fall, it will make bigger heads the next year.

I have often just left it in the garden... it does come back the next growing season. :)

I dry garlic chives in my dehydrator. Great for cooking!

check this out for edibles:

http://www.oklahomawildcrafting.com/

I was showing my mom our forum and didn't realize I posted under her profile. The original question was mine. My husband and I live on eighty acres we purchased from his grandparents years ago, his grandmother recently passed but told stories about napping in the hay truck whole grandpa was working one afternoon to wake up and find a little old lady digging around for a plant with medicinal qualities, I bet it was yarrow, we have it all over the place, I need to check it out. Both of these plants were found in the old hay lot that in itself might be how they ended up here. We do have an old home place but it is on the other side of our 80 acres. I have seen this garlic all over and what I believe to be wild onions as well. I'm excited about all this new information, thank you!