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Common Toadflax

Linaria vulgaris

5,393Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb3
Mar7
Apr69
May154
Jun451
Jul1,181
Aug1,571
Sep1,166
Oct491
Nov56
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England197
2Norfolk England186
3Suffolk England168
4Cambridgeshire England154
5Oxfordshire England147
6Cornwall England145
7Devon England134
8Essex England133
9Pembrokeshire Wales90
10Sefton England86
11Kent England84
12Dorset England71
13Kingston upon Hull, City of England66
14Surrey England56
15North Tyneside England52
3,688 England221 Scotland169 Wales12 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
5,393
Peak month
August
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Linaria vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,962
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Linaria
Name with authority
Linaria vulgaris Mill.
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157078 · GBIF 5415020