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Bighead knapweed

Centaurea macrocephala

426Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
69Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May8
Jun122
Jul219
Aug68
Sep8
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sheffield England20
2North Yorkshire England19
3Aberdeenshire Scotland15
4Suffolk England9
5Cumbria England8
6Scottish Borders Scotland8
7Bath and North East Somerset England8
8Kent England7
9Surrey England7
10Essex England7
11Worcestershire England7
12Somerset England7
13Perth and Kinross Scotland7
14Cambridgeshire England6
15Oxfordshire England6
3 England1 Scotland1 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 69 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
426
Peak month
July
Counties with records
69
Scientific name
Centaurea macrocephala
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Centaurea
Name with authority
Centaurea macrocephala Muss.Puschk. ex Willd.

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1549425 · GBIF 3129064