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Lesser Swine-cress

Lepidium didymum

2,225Records since 2000
JunePeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan22
Feb24
Mar27
Apr157
May273
Jun399
Jul383
Aug311
Sep171
Oct78
Nov45
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England268
2Sefton England121
3Norfolk England72
4Portsmouth England63
5Herefordshire, County of England58
6Suffolk England46
7Essex England46
8Surrey England44
9Liverpool England44
10Devon England41
11Cornwall England39
12Nottingham England26
13St. Helens England25
14Halton England23
15Kingston upon Hull, City of England22
1,949 England23 Scotland39 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 80 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,225
Peak month
June
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Lepidium didymum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,177
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Name with authority
Lepidium didymum L.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149609 · GBIF 5377060