The small-scale spatial patterns in Allium oleraceum L. and A. vineale L. populations, both common European geophytes, were studied in four contrasting habitats (meadow, scree, scrub and forest). Coefficient of dispersion indicated marked clumped distribution of the individuals of both species in all habitats. Pattern analysis revealed considerable differences in pattern both between species studied and among populations of respective species studied. The analyses clearly point at two distinct morphological features of both species concerning dispersion, which affect pattern of their populations - formation of daughter bulbs and that of aerial bulbils. Existence of 'morphological' patches at low block size was a common feature of all A. vineale populations studied regardless of habitat; the patchiness was caused by frequent production of many daughter bulbs in close neighbourhood of the parent plant. In contrast, variable and almost no remarkable small 'morphological' patches of A. oleraceum, corresponding to clumps of plants originated from daughter bulbs, were detected since daughter bulbs were frequently produced above ground and thus embodied a potential to disperse to the longer distance from the parent plant. Cluster dispersion of bulbils and their restricted dispersal distances were responsible for occurrence of small patches and second-order patches in most populations of both species.