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Hoary Cress

Lepidium draba

2,329Records since 2000
MayPeak month
71Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb3
Mar21
Apr505
May1,114
Jun419
Jul116
Aug72
Sep25
Oct9
Nov1
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Portsmouth England147
2Essex England145
3Kent England119
4Cambridgeshire England95
5Suffolk England80
6Norfolk England52
7Kingston upon Hull, City of England45
8East Riding of Yorkshire England40
9Sefton England40
10Oxfordshire England37
11Brighton and Hove England32
12East Lothian Scotland28
13Dorset England27
14Lincolnshire England23
15Medway England20
1,453 England47 Scotland21 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,329
Peak month
May
Counties with records
71
Scientific name
Lepidium draba
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,541
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Name with authority
Lepidium draba L.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149440 · GBIF 5376961