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Elder

Sambucus nigra

28,375Records since 2000
JunePeak month
124Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan451
Feb732
Mar1,452
Apr3,850
May4,062
Jun4,237
Jul2,751
Aug3,101
Sep2,034
Oct1,266
Nov730
Dec394

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,280
2Sefton England1,842
3Essex England921
4Oxfordshire England621
5Cambridgeshire England556
6Liverpool England556
7Halton England544
8Suffolk England523
9Sheffield England502
10Herefordshire, County of England427
11North Yorkshire England424
12Norfolk England416
13St. Helens England385
14Highland Scotland296
15West Berkshire England277
24,374 England1,492 Scotland674 Wales137 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,375
Peak month
June
Counties with records
124
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Sambucus nigra
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
79,581
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Dipsacales
Family
Viburnaceae
Genus
Sambucus
Name with authority
Sambucus nigra L.
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q22701 · GBIF 2888728