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Creeping Willow

Salix repens

2,272Records since 2000
JunePeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb4
Mar9
Apr156
May231
Jun592
Jul546
Aug244
Sep331
Oct34
Nov17
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Aberdeenshire Scotland405
2Sefton England340
3Highland Scotland284
4Devon England83
5Cumbria England78
6Isle of Anglesey Wales75
7Norfolk England72
8Argyll and Bute Scotland67
9Cambridgeshire England58
10Pembrokeshire Wales46
11Gwynedd Wales44
12North Ayrshire Scotland33
13Cornwall England31
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland26
15North Yorkshire England25
1,072 England907 Scotland216 Wales5 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,272
Peak month
June
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Salix repens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,514
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Salicaceae
Genus
Salix
Name with authority
Salix repens L.
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28141 · GBIF 9148812