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Creeping Thistle

Cirsium arvense

35,350Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan140
Feb112
Mar280
Apr2,085
May3,566
Jun5,730
Jul8,025
Aug6,115
Sep3,390
Oct1,485
Nov587
Dec181

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,206
2Sefton England1,311
3Essex England1,125
4Cambridgeshire England851
5North Yorkshire England744
6Oxfordshire England734
7Norfolk England727
8Suffolk England711
9Highland Scotland542
10Argyll and Bute Scotland521
11Halton England506
12Fife Scotland499
13Herefordshire, County of England412
14Cornwall England401
15Sheffield England398
26,882 England3,632 Scotland936 Wales90 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
35,350
Peak month
July
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Cirsium arvense
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
92,005
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Cirsium
Name with authority
Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.
Contributing datasets
65

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q341600 · GBIF 3113414