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§1 Plant

Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande

vernacular garlic mustard — species · Brassicaceae


USDA
ALPE4
GBIF
5376075
Rank
species
garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata)
Platephotograph · ivanshapvalov source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Brassicaceae Burnett
Genus
Alliaria
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 222 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 222 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 222 counties across 13 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 1 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 47 I
Maine view state ↗ 1 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I
New York view state ↗ 29 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 38 I
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I
Virginia view state ↗ 51 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 21 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ALPE4 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5376075 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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