About Earthynature of Britain

Species recorded in Cornwall

1,504 species

Cornwall — county

Heath Bumble Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 3,910

Soft-tufted Beard-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,875

Whiskered Veilwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,874

Rhizocarpon reductum

Group: Lichens
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 3,863

Marsh Violet

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,858

Striped Slender Robberfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,844

Golden Waxcap

Group: Fungi
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 3,833

Yellow Meadow Ant

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,810

Notched Rustwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,769

Garden Chafer

Group: Beetles
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,758

Common Groundhopper

Group: Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 3,753

Brain Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,724

Winter Heliotrope

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,719

Tubificoides pseudogaster

Group: Worms (annelids)
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,715

Undulate Ray

Group: Fish
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 3,705

Snipe fly

Group: True flies
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,679

European Alder Spittlebug

Group: True bugs
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,678

Common Beet

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,628

Lecidella lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,601

Limestone Disc Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,582

Blunt Feather-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,573

Common Powderhorn

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,571

Woodsy Silk-moss

Group: Mosses
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,549

Sessile Oak

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,548

Oarweed

Group: Seaweeds and algae
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 3,533

Powdered Speckled Shield Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,528

Sun Spurge

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,518

Crenulated Flapwort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 3,513

Eurasian Wryneck

Group: Birds
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 3,488

Whitewash Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,483

Redclaws

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,476

Black-eye Lichen

Group: Lichens
Peak month: July
Records since 2000: 3,474

Sea campion

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,472

Dulse

Group: Seaweeds and algae
Peak month: September
Records since 2000: 3,467

Southern String Grimmia

Group: Mosses
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,451

Common Chrysalis Snail

Group: Molluscs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,445

Gooden's Nomad Bee

Group: Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,424

Pink Purslane

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,424

Western Pouncewort

Group: Liverworts
Peak month: March
Records since 2000: 3,422

Mealy Pixie-cup

Group: Lichens
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,399

White Bedstraw

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,391

Common sycamore aphid

Group: True bugs
Peak month: May
Records since 2000: 3,385

Red Rags

Group: Seaweeds and algae
Peak month: August
Records since 2000: 3,381

Navelwort

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,375

Clouded Funnel

Group: Fungi
Peak month: October
Records since 2000: 3,371

Dandelion

Group: Flowering plants
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,371

Urban bluebottle blowfly, European blowfly

Group: True flies
Peak month: April
Records since 2000: 3,361

Wireweed, Japweed, Strangleweed

Group: Seaweeds and algae
Peak month: June
Records since 2000: 3,356