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Blueish Veilwort

Metzgeria violacea

10,650Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
113Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan886
Feb1,077
Mar1,505
Apr1,354
May880
Jun607
Jul510
Aug583
Sep625
Oct747
Nov858
Dec778

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales453
2Pembrokeshire Wales436
3Norfolk England431
4Cambridgeshire England368
5Cornwall England320
6North Yorkshire England311
7Worcestershire England292
8Devon England275
9Ceredigion Wales251
10Suffolk England244
11Cumbria England237
12Somerset England220
13Gwynedd Wales195
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland162
15Powys Wales158
6,995 England986 Scotland2,429 Wales233 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 113 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,650
Peak month
March
Counties with records
113
Scientific name
Metzgeria violacea
Group
Liverworts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,987
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Class
Jungermanniopsida
Order
Metzgeriales
Family
Metzgeriaceae
Genus
Metzgeria
Name with authority
Metzgeria violacea (Ach.) Dumort.
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q17267139 · GBIF 5286379