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Creeping Buttercup

Ranunculus repens

35,825Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan524
Feb600
Mar964
Apr3,015
May6,036
Jun6,429
Jul4,606
Aug3,863
Sep2,402
Oct1,193
Nov811
Dec491

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England4,006
2Sefton England1,483
3Highland Scotland1,122
4Argyll and Bute Scotland1,000
5North Yorkshire England944
6Herefordshire, County of England766
7Norfolk England681
8Essex England653
9Suffolk England643
10Sheffield England614
11Oxfordshire England572
12Powys Wales519
13Devon England513
14Cambridgeshire England502
15Cumbria England479
27,518 England5,009 Scotland1,928 Wales198 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
35,825
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Ranunculus repens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
105,377
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Ranunculus
Name with authority
Ranunculus repens L.
Contributing datasets
73

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q213356 · GBIF 3033339