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Dropwort

Filipendula vulgaris

2,211Records since 2000
JunePeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar3
Apr48
May200
Jun1,131
Jul485
Aug191
Sep74
Oct21
Nov16
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England117
2Cornwall England106
3Oxfordshire England61
4North Yorkshire England58
5Brighton and Hove England58
6Conwy Wales53
7Surrey England52
8Cambridgeshire England49
9Somerset England40
10Gloucestershire England26
11Worcestershire England25
12Kent England23
13Norfolk England20
14Suffolk England18
15Dorset England15
1,369 England12 Scotland40 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,211
Peak month
June
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Filipendula vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,789
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Filipendula
Name with authority
Filipendula vulgaris Moench
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q148961 · GBIF 2988069