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Crimson Flax

Linum grandiflorum

815Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
86Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May26
Jun135
Jul305
Aug189
Sep117
Oct34
Nov5
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England24
2Cambridgeshire England23
3Kent England23
4Surrey England21
5City of Edinburgh Scotland17
6Dorset England16
7Essex England15
8Oxfordshire England14
9Gloucestershire England13
10Somerset England12
11Nottinghamshire England12
12Sefton England12
13Leeds England11
14Suffolk England10
15Portsmouth England9
35 England3 Scotland3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
815
Peak month
July
Counties with records
86
Scientific name
Linum grandiflorum
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Linaceae
Genus
Linum
Name with authority
Linum grandiflorum Desf.
Contributing datasets
7

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1931991 · GBIF 2873926