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Cupid's dart

Catananche caerulea

372Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar0
Apr1
May4
Jun64
Jul182
Aug77
Sep35
Oct5
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England20
2Salford England16
3Cambridgeshire England15
4Essex England13
5Norfolk England11
6Suffolk England11
7Devon England11
8Kent England10
9Cornwall England9
10North Yorkshire England9
11Somerset England9
12Surrey England7
13Dorset England6
14Oxfordshire England4
15Worcestershire England4
4 England

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
372
Peak month
July
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Catananche caerulea
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Catananche
Name with authority
Catananche caerulea L.

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q514545 · GBIF 3134867