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Garlic Mustard

Alliaria petiolata

35,141Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan173
Feb307
Mar1,325
Apr13,506
May11,113
Jun2,485
Jul1,216
Aug968
Sep662
Oct587
Nov326
Dec186

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,416
2Oxfordshire England1,031
3Essex England872
4Sefton England698
5Suffolk England687
6Surrey England652
7Norfolk England620
8Cambridgeshire England603
9Kent England563
10Sheffield England491
11North Yorkshire England481
12Cumbria England461
13Devon England455
14City of Edinburgh Scotland427
15Gloucestershire England407
17,264 England871 Scotland402 Wales53 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
35,141
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Alliaria petiolata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
56,267
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Alliaria
Name with authority
Alliaria petiolata (M.Bieb.) Cavara & Grande
Contributing datasets
49

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q160097 · GBIF 5376075