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Buckwheat

Fagopyrum esculentum

1,174Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr2
May18
Jun154
Jul308
Aug297
Sep250
Oct124
Nov9
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England39
2Cambridgeshire England35
3Lincolnshire England32
4Nottinghamshire England32
5Kent England30
6Norfolk England27
7North Yorkshire England26
8Worcestershire England25
9Essex England24
10Gloucestershire England20
11Oxfordshire England19
12Cornwall England19
13Somerset England19
14Northamptonshire England19
15Devon England17
244 England8 Scotland4 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,174
Peak month
July
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Fagopyrum esculentum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,199
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Fagopyrum
Name with authority
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q132734 · GBIF 2889373