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Common Ragwort

Jacobaea vulgaris

27,539Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan371
Feb328
Mar549
Apr2,167
May2,382
Jun4,123
Jul5,971
Aug4,506
Sep2,186
Oct1,215
Nov748
Dec349

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,188
2Sefton England2,045
3Highland Scotland913
4Argyll and Bute Scotland543
5Norfolk England509
6Essex England501
7Halton England472
8Suffolk England447
9Sheffield England425
10Liverpool England412
11Oxfordshire England401
12Cambridgeshire England396
13Surrey England308
14North Yorkshire England301
15Telford and Wrekin England294
22,492 England3,166 Scotland829 Wales131 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
27,539
Peak month
July
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Jacobaea vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
20,681
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Jacobaea
Name with authority
Jacobaea vulgaris Gaertn.
Contributing datasets
66

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15630491 · GBIF 5388602