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Black Medick

Medicago lupulina

10,508Records since 2000
JunePeak month
115Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan41
Feb49
Mar60
Apr513
May1,367
Jun2,410
Jul2,082
Aug1,520
Sep820
Oct341
Nov97
Dec37

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,010
2Sefton England327
3Oxfordshire England274
4Essex England231
5Suffolk England202
6Norfolk England197
7Cambridgeshire England193
8East Lothian Scotland184
9Portsmouth England153
10Herefordshire, County of England138
11West Berkshire England114
12North Yorkshire England112
13Halton England112
14Telford and Wrekin England110
15Gloucestershire England105
9,368 England552 Scotland216 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,508
Peak month
June
Counties with records
115
Scientific name
Medicago lupulina
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
44,483
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Medicago
Name with authority
Medicago lupulina L.
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157923 · GBIF 2965201