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Hedge Mustard

Sisymbrium officinale

8,158Records since 2000
JunePeak month
115Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan87
Feb46
Mar67
Apr518
May1,646
Jun1,833
Jul1,326
Aug779
Sep447
Oct251
Nov146
Dec79

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England762
2Sefton England483
3Essex England277
4Suffolk England238
5Oxfordshire England211
6Cambridgeshire England168
7Norfolk England164
8Portsmouth England140
9Halton England128
10Telford and Wrekin England115
11City of Edinburgh Scotland105
12Liverpool England100
13Surrey England88
14Sheffield England88
15East Lothian Scotland87
6,596 England412 Scotland123 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,158
Peak month
June
Counties with records
115
Scientific name
Sisymbrium officinale
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
37,858
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Sisymbrium
Name with authority
Sisymbrium officinale (L.) Scop.
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157698 · GBIF 3046890