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Dog's Mercury

Mercurialis perennis

18,728Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan202
Feb570
Mar2,468
Apr4,733
May3,204
Jun1,604
Jul1,231
Aug1,024
Sep645
Oct275
Nov230
Dec210

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,433
2North Yorkshire England685
3Herefordshire, County of England662
4Essex England543
5Gloucestershire England426
6Surrey England378
7Devon England358
8Cumbria England345
9Suffolk England340
10Kent England314
11Powys Wales277
12Oxfordshire England272
13Argyll and Bute Scotland268
14Norfolk England256
15Sheffield England220
12,134 England947 Scotland704 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
18,728
Peak month
April
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Mercurialis perennis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
46,378
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Mercurialis
Name with authority
Mercurialis perennis L.
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158132 · GBIF 3063016