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Common Poppy

Papaver rhoeas

4,491Records since 2000
JunePeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb9
Mar8
Apr79
May511
Jun1,335
Jul1,089
Aug611
Sep242
Oct92
Nov30
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England327
2Suffolk England216
3Sefton England214
4Norfolk England189
5Cambridgeshire England165
6Oxfordshire England136
7Essex England132
8Telford and Wrekin England77
9North Yorkshire England59
10Kent England58
11Surrey England54
12Halton England53
13West Berkshire England49
14Kingston upon Hull, City of England48
15Cornwall England43
4,178 England152 Scotland50 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,491
Peak month
June
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Papaver rhoeas
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,124
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Papaveraceae
Genus
Papaver
Name with authority
Papaver rhoeas L.
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q130201 · GBIF 2888443