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Common Twayblade

Neottia ovata

3,186Records since 2000
JunePeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar7
Apr227
May944
Jun1,276
Jul419
Aug76
Sep9
Oct5
Nov0
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England181
2Cumbria England97
3North Yorkshire England96
4Cambridgeshire England80
5Surrey England74
6Gloucestershire England73
7Kent England69
8Suffolk England68
9Oxfordshire England54
10Norfolk England47
11Herefordshire, County of England46
12Highland Scotland45
13Dorset England35
14Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland34
15Devon England33
2,152 England295 Scotland83 Wales56 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,186
Peak month
June
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Neottia ovata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,700
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Neottia
Name with authority
Neottia ovata (L.) Bluff & Fingerh.
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15502088 · GBIF 2816250