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Society garlic
	Tulbaghia violacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Allioideae
Tribe:	Tulbaghieae
Genus:	Tulbaghia; L. 1771, conserved name not Heister 1755
Synonyms
	Omentaria Salisb. (1866); Prototulbaghia Vosa (2007);

Tulbaghia (wild garlic^[2] or society garlic) is a genus of monocotyledonous herbaceous perennial bulbs native to Africa,^[3] belonging to the amaryllis family. It is one of only two known genera in the society garlic tribe within the onion subfamily.^[4] The genus was named for Ryk Tulbagh (1699–1771), one time governor of The Cape of Good Hope.^[5]

Most species are native to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. As is common to many members of the Allioideae, when their leaves are bruised they produce a distinct garlic smell, hence its common name. The flowers are borne in an umbel. Each flower has six narrow tepals. A characteristic of the genus is that there is a "corona" – a raised crown-like structure – at the centre of the flower. This may be small and scale-like or may be larger, somewhat like the trumpet of a small narcissus.^[6]

Species^[3]^[7]

Tulbaghia acutiloba Harv. – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa
Tulbaghia aequinoctialis Welw. ex Baker – Angola
Tulbaghia alliacea L.f., syn. Tulbaghia affinis – Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
Tulbaghia calcarea Engl. & Krause – Namibia
Tulbaghia cameronii Baker – Cameroon, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Tulbaghia capensis L. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia cernua Fisch. – Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa
Tulbaghia coddii Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Mpumalanga
Tulbaghia cominsii Vosa – Cape Province
Tulbaghia dregeana Kunth – Cape Province
Tulbaghia friesii Suess. – Nyanga Mountains of Mozambique + Zimbabwe
Tulbaghia galpinii Schltr. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia leucantha Baker – Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia
Tulbaghia ludwigiana Harv. – Eswatini, South Africa
Tulbaghia luebbertiana Engl. & Krause – Namibia
Tulbaghia macrocarpa Vosa – Zimbabwe
Tulbaghia montana Vosa – Cape Province
Tulbaghia natalensis Baker – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal
Tulbaghia nutans Vosa – Mpumalanga
Tulbaghia pretoriensis Vosa & Condy – Gauteng
Tulbaghia rhodesica R.E.Fr. – Tanzania, Zambia
Tulbaghia simmleri Beauverd – Northern Province
Tulbaghia tenuior K.Krause & Dinter – Cape Province, Namibia
Tulbaghia transvaalensis Vosa – Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal
Tulbaghia verdoornia Vosa & R.B.Burb. – Cape Province
Tulbaghia violacea Harv. – Society garlic^[8] – Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal; naturalized in Tanzania + Mexico