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Common Mouse-ear

Cerastium fontanum

18,442Records since 2000
JunePeak month
122Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan166
Feb155
Mar300
Apr1,012
May2,903
Jun3,657
Jul2,940
Aug1,868
Sep976
Oct404
Nov166
Dec120

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,081
2Highland Scotland858
3North Yorkshire England634
4Sefton England634
5Norfolk England367
6Powys Wales338
7Herefordshire, County of England335
8Perth and Kinross Scotland328
9Cumbria England315
10Devon England274
11Suffolk England258
12Telford and Wrekin England250
13Oxfordshire England234
14Cambridgeshire England217
15Fife Scotland216
14,329 England2,687 Scotland996 Wales56 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
18,442
Peak month
June
Counties with records
122
Scientific name
Cerastium fontanum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
84,429
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Cerastium
Name with authority
Cerastium fontanum Baumg.
Contributing datasets
60

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q9311819 · GBIF 3085458