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Creeping Cinquefoil

Potentilla reptans

11,337Records since 2000
JunePeak month
102Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan85
Feb121
Mar159
Apr812
May1,363
Jun2,232
Jul1,812
Aug1,440
Sep701
Oct432
Nov199
Dec157

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,673
2Essex England340
3Cambridgeshire England295
4Herefordshire, County of England294
5Suffolk England292
6Oxfordshire England261
7Portsmouth England235
8Norfolk England200
9Telford and Wrekin England165
10Sefton England164
11North Yorkshire England161
12Devon England120
13Cornwall England101
14Kent England97
15Gloucestershire England93
10,387 England80 Scotland389 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 102 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,337
Peak month
June
Counties with records
102
Scientific name
Potentilla reptans
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
49,977
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Potentilla
Name with authority
Potentilla reptans L.
Contributing datasets
54

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q130224 · GBIF 5367273