The plant has a distinctive growth habit with strap-shaped leaves unlike either onion or garlic, and straight thin white-flowering stalks that are much taller than the leaves.
It grows in slowly expanding perennial clumps, but also readily sprouts from seed.
It is used as vegetable and has attractive flowers.
Garlic chives are widely used in Korean cuisine.
The flavor of garlic chives is more like garlic than chives, though much milder.