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Crescent-cup Liverwort

Lunularia cruciata

13,008Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1,168
Feb1,296
Mar1,764
Apr1,445
May883
Jun709
Jul592
Aug874
Sep860
Oct983
Nov1,023
Dec1,080

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England783
2Norfolk England563
3Sefton England496
4Cornwall England493
5Suffolk England346
6Worcestershire England313
7North Yorkshire England308
8Pembrokeshire Wales299
9City of Edinburgh Scotland276
10Devon England268
11Somerset England249
12Carmarthenshire Wales230
13Kent England213
14Monmouthshire Wales187
15Scottish Borders Scotland154
9,555 England1,038 Scotland1,900 Wales501 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,008
Peak month
March
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Lunularia cruciata
Group
Liverworts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,353
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Class
Marchantiopsida
Order
Lunulariales
Family
Lunulariaceae
Genus
Lunularia
Name with authority
Lunularia cruciata (L.) Dumort. ex Lindb.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1474234 · GBIF 5286308