| Plants : Brassicaceae | Ferns and Flowering Plants |
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| Alliaria petiolata |
Description: This is a rather infrequent plant usually met with on roadside banks. Although a member of the cabbage family, it has the smell of garlic on being crushed.
All names: Alliaria petiolata (M.Bieb.) Cavara & Grande; Alliaria officinalis Andrz. ex Bieb.; Alliaria alliacea Britten & Rendle; Sisymbrium alliaria (L.) Scop.
Distribution Map from NBN: Alliaria petiolata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Alliaria petiolata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
| Hackney, P., 2026. Alliaria petiolata. (M.Bieb.) Cavara & Grande. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland. https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2905. Accessed on 2026-11-02. |