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Broom

Cytisus scoparius

7,008Records since 2000
MayPeak month
115Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan167
Feb159
Mar288
Apr1,041
May1,322
Jun870
Jul742
Aug550
Sep460
Oct250
Nov181
Dec138

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England793
2Highland Scotland791
3Sefton England345
4Norfolk England186
5Argyll and Bute Scotland140
6Suffolk England126
7Perth and Kinross Scotland126
8Essex England124
9Fife Scotland114
10City of Edinburgh Scotland109
11Aberdeenshire Scotland102
12Sheffield England89
13Surrey England85
14North Ayrshire Scotland82
15Cumbria England80
4,268 England1,852 Scotland182 Wales41 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
7,008
Peak month
May
Counties with records
115
Scientific name
Cytisus scoparius
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
28,381
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Cytisus
Name with authority
Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q145781 · GBIF 5354656