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Corncockle

Agrostemma githago

2,501Records since 2000
JunePeak month
117Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar12
Apr13
May194
Jun1,095
Jul770
Aug274
Sep69
Oct44
Nov11
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England98
2Cambridgeshire England75
3Devon England72
4Kent England67
5Norfolk England59
6Cornwall England51
7Gloucestershire England47
8Oxfordshire England46
9Dorset England42
10Surrey England41
11Essex England41
12St. Helens England36
13Suffolk England34
14North Yorkshire England32
15Somerset England31
580 England24 Scotland10 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 117 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,501
Peak month
June
Counties with records
117
Scientific name
Agrostemma githago
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,957
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Agrostemma
Name with authority
Agrostemma githago L.
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q147852 · GBIF 3085368