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Hairy Bitter-cress

Cardamine hirsuta

5,395Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan175
Feb310
Mar735
Apr1,070
May698
Jun360
Jul207
Aug168
Sep196
Oct199
Nov107
Dec115

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England958
2Highland Scotland374
3Sefton England197
4Oxfordshire England145
5Telford and Wrekin England95
6Argyll and Bute Scotland91
7Herefordshire, County of England84
8North Tyneside England78
9West Berkshire England68
10Sheffield England61
11Norfolk England57
12Fife Scotland56
13City of Edinburgh Scotland54
14Suffolk England53
15Cambridgeshire England49
4,282 England796 Scotland146 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,395
Peak month
April
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Cardamine hirsuta
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
39,091
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Cardamine
Name with authority
Cardamine hirsuta L.
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157926 · GBIF 3046258