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Solanum dulcamara

14,056Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb10
Mar20
Apr275
May1,446
Jun2,823
Jul2,498
Aug3,170
Sep1,464
Oct690
Nov252
Dec43

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,170
2Norfolk England517
3Essex England444
4Suffolk England400
5Oxfordshire England371
6Cambridgeshire England274
7Kent England228
8Pembrokeshire Wales213
9Surrey England212
10Cornwall England207
11Devon England192
12Portsmouth England177
13Sefton England163
14Gloucestershire England152
15City of Edinburgh Scotland133
9,780 England474 Scotland528 Wales195 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
14,056
Peak month
August
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Solanum dulcamara
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
41,983
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Solanales
Family
Solanaceae
Genus
Solanum
Name with authority
Solanum dulcamara L.
Contributing datasets
57

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q147707 · GBIF 2932737