Species Detail - Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Silybum marianum
Milk Thistle
NHMSYS0000463605 UnverifiedUnverified
Threatened Species: Near threatened
simar
(L.) Gaertn.
flowering plant
Species
6
3
2
23/07/2017
10/10/2020
21 January (recorded in 2011)
10 October (recorded in 2020)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), accessed 12 May 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/409/Species/45240>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)