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Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

1,899Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan17
Feb9
Mar27
Apr219
May268
Jun264
Jul350
Aug336
Sep192
Oct112
Nov37
Dec32

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England131
2Portsmouth England117
3Norfolk England80
4Suffolk England66
5Essex England64
6Kent England61
7Devon England44
8Cornwall England36
9Cambridgeshire England35
10Oxfordshire England35
11Highland Scotland33
12Worcestershire England32
13Sheffield England30
14Brighton and Hove England27
15Southend-on-Sea England26
1,446 England66 Scotland63 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,899
Peak month
July
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Foeniculum vulgare
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,641
Most recorded in
Sefton, Portsmouth, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Foeniculum
Name with authority
Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q43511 · GBIF 3034922