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Common Bird's-foot-trefoil

Lotus corniculatus

24,100Records since 2000
JunePeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb13
Mar68
Apr927
May4,061
Jun6,320
Jul4,954
Aug3,315
Sep1,343
Oct318
Nov64
Dec23

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,213
2Highland Scotland931
3Argyll and Bute Scotland757
4Sefton England639
5North Yorkshire England500
6Herefordshire, County of England422
7Essex England405
8Cumbria England393
9Cornwall England363
10Powys Wales349
11Devon England306
12Sheffield England296
13Dorset England279
14Oxfordshire England275
15Norfolk England267
17,771 England3,578 Scotland1,487 Wales107 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
24,100
Peak month
June
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Lotus corniculatus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
73,401
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Lotus
Name with authority
Lotus corniculatus L.
Contributing datasets
75

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q29907 · GBIF 5357013