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Common Cow-wheat

Melampyrum pratense

1,675Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar1
Apr15
May240
Jun514
Jul517
Aug213
Sep42
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland277
2Worcestershire England172
3Devon England112
4Argyll and Bute Scotland89
5Essex England83
6Cumbria England58
7Sheffield England53
8Powys Wales44
9Gwynedd Wales39
10Somerset England33
11Herefordshire, County of England29
12North Yorkshire England27
13Stirling Scotland26
14Kent England25
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland22
995 England480 Scotland131 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,675
Peak month
July
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Melampyrum pratense
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,123
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Orobanchaceae
Genus
Melampyrum
Name with authority
Melampyrum pratense L.
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7693914