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Common Centaury

Centaurium erythraea

4,676Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
102Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb7
Mar21
Apr19
May81
Jun1,007
Jul1,673
Aug864
Sep337
Oct139
Nov32
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England445
2Sefton England191
3Cambridgeshire England133
4Cornwall England111
5Suffolk England109
6Norfolk England108
7Herefordshire, County of England92
8Devon England78
9Rotherham England74
10Kent England73
11Portsmouth England72
12North Yorkshire England65
13Oxfordshire England64
14Surrey England62
15Essex England62
3,751 England207 Scotland242 Wales63 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 102 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,676
Peak month
July
Counties with records
102
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Centaurium erythraea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
19,487
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Gentianaceae
Genus
Centaurium
Name with authority
Centaurium erythraea Rafn
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156870 · GBIF 5414457