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Cranberry

Vaccinium oxycoccos

2,409Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
46Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan49
Feb117
Mar63
Apr43
May145
Jun330
Jul405
Aug512
Sep236
Oct91
Nov168
Dec83

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Ceredigion Wales222
2Cumbria England202
3East Ayrshire Scotland176
4North Yorkshire England121
5Worcestershire England100
6Wrexham Wales89
7Powys Wales87
8Gwynedd Wales86
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland67
10Cambridgeshire England58
11Argyll and Bute Scotland54
12Stirling Scotland50
13Sheffield England47
14Carmarthenshire Wales38
15Blackburn with Darwen England36
1,269 England487 Scotland549 Wales27 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,409
Peak month
August
Counties with records
46
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Vaccinium oxycoccos
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,600
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ericales
Family
Ericaceae
Genus
Vaccinium
Name with authority
Vaccinium oxycoccos L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q374399 · GBIF 2882940