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Common Beet

Beta vulgaris

3,628Records since 2000
JunePeak month
106Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan59
Feb78
Mar100
Apr346
May580
Jun635
Jul547
Aug487
Sep372
Oct209
Nov111
Dec79

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Portsmouth England205
2Cornwall England175
3Cambridgeshire England137
4Isle of Anglesey Wales136
5Norfolk England135
6Suffolk England126
7Kent England110
8Devon England110
9Sefton England109
10Essex England99
11Gwynedd Wales88
12Pembrokeshire Wales59
13Lincolnshire England57
14Isles of Scilly England55
15Halton England55
1,274 England15 Scotland275 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 106 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,628
Peak month
June
Counties with records
106
Scientific name
Beta vulgaris
Also known as
Beet
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
295
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Beta
Name with authority
Beta vulgaris L.
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q165191 · GBIF 8971274