Ramps (Allium tricoccum), also called wild leek, wood leek or ramson in American usage, are a wild spring onion of eastern North American woodlands, prized for a short, intense season each year. Each plant throws up one to three broad, smooth, lily-of-the-valley-like leaves of soft green above a slender, scallion-like white bulb whose stem is washed a deep burgundy-pink. The flavour is a pungent, garlicky-oniony punch — unmistakably allium, yet milder, sweeter and greener than garlic — that has made the ramp one of the most coveted and fiercely foraged plants of the Appalachian and northeastern spring.