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Ash

Fraxinus excelsior

35,025Records since 2000
JunePeak month
124Counties with records
Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan677
Feb768
Mar1,041
Apr2,809
May4,265
Jun4,979
Jul4,746
Aug4,522
Sep3,629
Oct2,356
Nov981
Dec353

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,494
2Sefton England1,055
3Powys Wales862
4Herefordshire, County of England681
5Essex England635
6Oxfordshire England609
7Cambridgeshire England543
8Argyll and Bute Scotland514
9Devon England507
10Highland Scotland504
11Sheffield England501
12North Yorkshire England494
13Halton England475
14Liverpool England407
15Cumbria England372
28,633 England2,516 Scotland1,637 Wales179 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
35,025
Peak month
June
Counties with records
124
IUCN Red List
Near Threatened
Scientific name
Fraxinus excelsior
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
93,150
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Oleaceae
Genus
Fraxinus
Name with authority
Fraxinus excelsior L.
Contributing datasets
64

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156907 · GBIF 3172358