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Common Chickweed

Stellaria media

11,998Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan405
Feb374
Mar800
Apr1,527
May1,440
Jun1,258
Jul1,029
Aug877
Sep747
Oct608
Nov385
Dec306

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,847
2Sefton England977
3Highland Scotland276
4Suffolk England222
5North Yorkshire England199
6Herefordshire, County of England199
7Norfolk England195
8Cambridgeshire England194
9Essex England190
10City of Edinburgh Scotland179
11Telford and Wrekin England171
12Fife Scotland167
13Oxfordshire England162
14Argyll and Bute Scotland135
15Halton England133
10,063 England1,222 Scotland247 Wales50 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,998
Peak month
April
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Stellaria media
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
63,682
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Stellaria
Name with authority
Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158711 · GBIF 5384604