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Dwarf Thistle

Cirsium acaule

1,492Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
32Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar5
Apr58
May180
Jun295
Jul429
Aug358
Sep101
Oct21
Nov4
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England88
2Dorset England57
3Oxfordshire England56
4Rutland England42
5Cambridgeshire England36
6Essex England26
7Somerset England23
8Surrey England22
9Suffolk England21
10Kent England21
11Brighton and Hove England20
12Norfolk England19
13West Berkshire England12
14Herefordshire, County of England11
15Worcestershire England7
1,414 England2 Scotland15 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 32 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,492
Peak month
July
Counties with records
32
Scientific name
Cirsium acaule
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,816
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Cirsium
Name with authority
Cirsium acaule (L.) Scop.
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q536658 · GBIF 3112799