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Thale Cress

Arabidopsis thaliana

4,163Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan71
Feb89
Mar361
Apr1,269
May828
Jun311
Jul222
Aug124
Sep119
Oct81
Nov59
Dec59

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England489
2Highland Scotland354
3Sefton England282
4City of Edinburgh Scotland102
5Telford and Wrekin England76
6Fife Scotland72
7Surrey England70
8Suffolk England56
9Argyll and Bute Scotland52
10Aberdeenshire Scotland49
11York England47
12North Tyneside England46
13Oxfordshire England45
14Norfolk England43
15Stockport England40
3,134 England800 Scotland59 Wales30 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,163
Peak month
April
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Arabidopsis thaliana
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,897
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Arabidopsis
Name with authority
Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158695 · GBIF 3052436