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Swine-cress

Lepidium coronopus

871Records since 2000
JunePeak month
44Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb8
Mar7
Apr39
May121
Jun163
Jul154
Aug124
Sep63
Oct19
Nov11
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England118
2Suffolk England52
3Essex England45
4Oxfordshire England43
5Cambridgeshire England34
6Herefordshire, County of England23
7Norfolk England21
8Rutland England17
9Gloucestershire England16
10Portsmouth England15
11Telford and Wrekin England12
12West Berkshire England9
13North Lincolnshire England9
14Kent England6
15Surrey England6
852 England2 Scotland11 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 44 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
871
Peak month
June
Counties with records
44
Scientific name
Lepidium coronopus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
15,136
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Suffolk
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Lepidium
Name with authority
Lepidium coronopus (L.) Al-Shehbaz
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149924 · GBIF 5376627