Index / Search / Alliaria petiolata
§1 Plant
Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande
vernacular garlic mustard — species · Brassicaceae
§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
· 388 counties across 31 states/territories§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 388 counties across 31 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 26 I ▾
- Boone 17007
- Carroll 17015
- Champaign 17019
- Clark 17023
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- De Witt 17039
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Grundy 17063
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Macon 17115
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Sangamon 17167
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 47 I ▾
- Anderson 21005
- Barren 21009
- Boone 21015
- Bourbon 21017
- Bracken 21023
- Breckinridge 21027
- Campbell 21037
- Carroll 21041
- Carter 21043
- Clark 21049
- Edmonson 21061
- Fayette 21067
- Fleming 21069
- Franklin 21073
- Gallatin 21077
- Garrard 21079
- Grant 21081
- Greenup 21089
- Harrison 21097
- Henry 21103
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Jessamine 21113
- Kenton 21117
- Laurel 21125
- Leslie 21131
- Logan 21141
- Madison 21151
- Martin 21159
- Mason 21161
- Meade 21163
- Mercer 21167
- Montgomery 21173
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Nelson 21179
- Nicholas 21181
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Pendleton 21191
- Pike 21195
- Powell 21197
- Robertson 21201
- Scott 21209
- Shelby 21211
- Trimble 21223
- Union 21225
- Woodford 21239
Maine view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Greene 36039
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Belmont 39013
- Butler 39017
- Carroll 39019
- Champaign 39021
- Clark 39023
- Clinton 39027
- Columbiana 39029
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Delaware 39041
- Erie 39043
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Hamilton 39061
- Henry 39069
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Lawrence 39087
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Marion 39101
- Ottawa 39123
- Portage 39133
- Richland 39139
- Ross 39141
- Sandusky 39143
- Seneca 39147
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Van Wert 39161
- Warren 39165
- Washington 39167
- Wood 39173
- Wyandot 39175
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 38 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clarion 42031
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Somerset 42111
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Tennessee view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 51 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Appomattox 51011
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Caroline 51033
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesterfield 51041
- Clarke 51043
- Craig 51045
- Culpeper 51047
- Cumberland 51049
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Goochland 51075
- Greene 51079
- Halifax 51083
- Henrico 51087
- Henry 51089
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- New Kent 51127
- Orange 51137
- Page 51139
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince William 51153
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Spotsylvania 51177
- Stafford 51179
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- York 51199
Washington view state ↗ 1 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Brown 55009
- Calumet 55015
- Columbia 55021
- Crawford 55023
- Dane 55025
- Door 55029
- Forest 55041
- Grant 55043
- Green 55045
- Jefferson 55055
- Kenosha 55059
- Lafayette 55065
- Langlade 55067
- Manitowoc 55071
- Milwaukee 55079
- Outagamie 55087
- Ozaukee 55089
- Racine 55101
- Rock 55105
- Sauk 55111
- Sheboygan 55117
- Vernon 55123
- Walworth 55127
- Washington 55131
- Waukesha 55133
- Winnebago 55139
- Wood 55141
§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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