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Winter-cress

Barbarea vulgaris

1,551Records since 2000
MayPeak month
82Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb15
Mar28
Apr266
May626
Jun185
Jul83
Aug59
Sep36
Oct22
Nov17
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England166
2Oxfordshire England42
3Norfolk England35
4Suffolk England35
5Sefton England31
6North Yorkshire England25
7Telford and Wrekin England24
8Cambridgeshire England22
9Cumbria England21
10Liverpool England19
11West Berkshire England18
12Gloucestershire England15
13Portsmouth England15
14York England14
15Herefordshire, County of England13
1,424 England66 Scotland21 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,551
Peak month
May
Counties with records
82
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Barbarea vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
15,527
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Brassicales
Family
Brassicaceae
Genus
Barbarea
Name with authority
Barbarea vulgaris (L.) W.T.Aiton
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157285 · GBIF 5708780