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Bladder Campion

Silene vulgaris

2,695Records since 2000
JunePeak month
98Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar5
Apr18
May425
Jun1,235
Jul574
Aug190
Sep85
Oct36
Nov5
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England138
2Cambridgeshire England104
3Suffolk England102
4Worcestershire England96
5Oxfordshire England82
6Rutland England75
7Kent England72
8Surrey England70
9North Yorkshire England64
10Brighton and Hove England47
11Rotherham England43
12Gloucestershire England40
13Sefton England28
14Portsmouth England27
15East Lothian Scotland26
1,711 England75 Scotland21 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,695
Peak month
June
Counties with records
98
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Silene vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,860
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Silene
Name with authority
Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q511103 · GBIF 9172281