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Beech

Fagus sylvatica

26,555Records since 2000
MayPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan454
Feb534
Mar713
Apr2,250
May4,538
Jun4,002
Jul3,442
Aug3,267
Sep2,404
Oct1,912
Nov899
Dec420

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England1,564
2Worcestershire England1,501
3Devon England796
4Sheffield England618
5Surrey England546
6Oxfordshire England543
7Highland Scotland451
8Norfolk England448
9Cumbria England430
10North Yorkshire England394
11Gloucestershire England379
12Kent England364
13Cornwall England336
14Cambridgeshire England308
15Suffolk England276
13,228 England1,523 Scotland566 Wales131 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
26,555
Peak month
May
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Fagus sylvatica
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
54,931
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fagales
Family
Fagaceae
Genus
Fagus
Name with authority
Fagus sylvatica L.
Contributing datasets
57

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q146149 · GBIF 2882316