Asparagus

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Asparagus officinalis is a spring vegetable, a flouerin perennial[1] plant species in the genus Asparagus. It wis ance clessifee'd in the lily faimily, lik its Allium cousins, ingans an garlic, but the Liliaceae hae been split an the ingan-lik plants are nou in the faimily Amaryllidaceae an asparagus in the Asparagaceae. Asparagus officinalis is native tae maist o Europe, northren Africae an wastren Asie,[2][3][4] an is widely cultivatit as a vegetable crop.

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