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Butterfly-bush

Buddleja davidii

10,146Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
120Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan352
Feb405
Mar510
Apr1,228
May725
Jun840
Jul1,625
Aug1,500
Sep970
Oct674
Nov452
Dec367

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England1,043
2Worcestershire England390
3Powys Wales227
4Halton England221
5Norfolk England191
6Sheffield England174
7Surrey England159
8Fife Scotland155
9City of Edinburgh Scotland139
10Cornwall England134
11Portsmouth England131
12Highland Scotland128
13York England124
14Oxfordshire England123
15Gwynedd Wales116
7,972 England742 Scotland585 Wales34 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 120 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,146
Peak month
July
Counties with records
120
Scientific name
Buddleja davidii
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
30,701
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Genus
Buddleja
Name with authority
Buddleja davidii Franch.
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161538 · GBIF 3173338