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Shepherd's-purse

Capsella bursa-pastoris

9,963Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
119Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan455
Feb259
Mar440
Apr1,319
May1,254
Jun1,251
Jul1,065
Aug837
Sep695
Oct528
Nov325
Dec269

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,078
2Sefton England570
3Essex England267
4Oxfordshire England233
5Suffolk England198
6Norfolk England174
7Cambridgeshire England173
8Highland Scotland149
9Portsmouth England139
10Telford and Wrekin England139
11Halton England117
12Herefordshire, County of England114
13City of Edinburgh Scotland105
14Liverpool England97
15North Tyneside England94
8,835 England661 Scotland135 Wales27 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 119 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,963
Peak month
April
Counties with records
119
Scientific name
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
49,909
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Capsella
Name with authority
Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik.
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27264 · GBIF 5375388