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Common Milkwort

Polygala vulgaris

2,096Records since 2000
JunePeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar3
Apr71
May488
Jun693
Jul303
Aug211
Sep84
Oct13
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England200
2Sefton England115
3Argyll and Bute Scotland78
4North Yorkshire England76
5Devon England72
6Cornwall England65
7Gwynedd Wales58
8Oxfordshire England44
9Powys Wales38
10Highland Scotland34
11Cumbria England33
12Herefordshire, County of England33
13Dorset England28
14Gloucestershire England25
15Cambridgeshire England24
1,648 England192 Scotland148 Wales8 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,096
Peak month
June
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Polygala vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,096
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Polygalaceae
Genus
Polygala
Name with authority
Polygala vulgaris L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q162905 · GBIF 3191374