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Galium aparine

35,139Records since 2000
MayPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan505
Feb964
Mar1,815
Apr5,612
May6,726
Jun6,310
Jul3,975
Aug2,293
Sep1,329
Oct812
Nov619
Dec487

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,485
2Sefton England1,539
3Oxfordshire England923
4Cambridgeshire England807
5Essex England734
6Suffolk England686
7North Yorkshire England597
8Herefordshire, County of England567
9Highland Scotland535
10Norfolk England532
11Liverpool England513
12Fife Scotland499
13Halton England461
14Argyll and Bute Scotland449
15Sheffield England412
28,638 England3,483 Scotland1,125 Wales128 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
35,139
Peak month
May
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Galium aparine
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
94,095
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Galium
Name with authority
Galium aparine L.
Contributing datasets
67

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161581 · GBIF 2913548