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Black Bryony

Dioscorea communis

7,792Records since 2000
MayPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan17
Feb8
Mar18
Apr302
May1,367
Jun1,357
Jul977
Aug987
Sep962
Oct486
Nov166
Dec44

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,193
2Herefordshire, County of England227
3Surrey England188
4Essex England178
5Oxfordshire England173
6Devon England173
7Gloucestershire England172
8Kent England154
9Suffolk England146
10Somerset England129
11Cornwall England121
12North Yorkshire England119
13Cambridgeshire England113
14Powys Wales98
15Norfolk England93
5,843 England343 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,792
Peak month
May
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Dioscorea communis
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Dioscoreales
Family
Dioscoreaceae
Genus
Dioscorea
Name with authority
Dioscorea communis (L.) Caddick & Wilkin
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161378 · GBIF 2755063