High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ramsons (Allium ursinum) — also known as buckrams, wild garlic, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, and bear`s garlic — is a wild relative of chives native to Europe and Asia. The Latin name is due to the brown bear`s taste for the bulbs and its habit of digging up the ground to get at them; they are also a favorite of wild boar.