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Dog-rose

Rosa canina

7,677Records since 2000
JunePeak month
113Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan55
Feb52
Mar101
Apr292
May802
Jun1,577
Jul642
Aug733
Sep591
Oct368
Nov129
Dec64

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,849
2Essex England336
3Suffolk England192
4Oxfordshire England176
5Cambridgeshire England162
6Telford and Wrekin England155
7East Lothian Scotland138
8Norfolk England128
9Herefordshire, County of England122
10North Yorkshire England106
11North Tyneside England89
12Dorset England88
13Powys Wales80
14Cornwall England66
15Northamptonshire England63
6,476 England387 Scotland195 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 113 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,677
Peak month
June
Counties with records
113
Scientific name
Rosa canina
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
57,448
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Rosa
Name with authority
Rosa canina L.
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q146066 · GBIF 3002461