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Common Puffball

Lycoperdon perlatum

2,795Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
92Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan53
Feb32
Mar26
Apr24
May11
Jun7
Jul33
Aug133
Sep527
Oct1,272
Nov475
Dec78

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England187
2Gloucestershire England181
3Highland Scotland146
4Oxfordshire England120
5Bristol, City of England115
6Worcestershire England114
7Sefton England89
8Cambridgeshire England74
9Kent England54
10Cornwall England36
11Aberdeenshire Scotland34
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland31
13Surrey England29
14Mid Ulster Northern Ireland27
15Somerset England25
2,166 England348 Scotland85 Wales185 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,795
Peak month
October
Counties with records
92
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Lycoperdon perlatum
Group
Fungi
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,391
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Agaricales
Family
Lycoperdaceae
Genus
Lycoperdon
Name with authority
Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q545130 · GBIF 5243258