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Cotton Thistle

Onopordum acanthium

916Records since 2000
JunePeak month
59Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb3
Mar14
Apr49
May186
Jun275
Jul207
Aug97
Sep25
Oct20
Nov7
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England105
2Cambridgeshire England82
3Norfolk England76
4Essex England38
5Oxfordshire England33
6Surrey England23
7City of Edinburgh Scotland23
8Northamptonshire England20
9Kent England18
10Worcestershire England17
11Highland Scotland14
12East Riding of Yorkshire England12
13Gloucestershire England12
14York England11
15Lincolnshire England10
421 England13 Scotland6 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 59 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
916
Peak month
June
Counties with records
59
Scientific name
Onopordum acanthium
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,853
Most recorded in
Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Onopordum
Name with authority
Onopordum acanthium L.
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q30166 · GBIF 3094900