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Myosotis arvensis

6,582Records since 2000
MayPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan44
Feb41
Mar65
Apr453
May1,362
Jun1,320
Jul910
Aug530
Sep252
Oct133
Nov52
Dec27

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,264
2Highland Scotland215
3East Lothian Scotland203
4Oxfordshire England201
5Suffolk England146
6Herefordshire, County of England123
7Cambridgeshire England111
8Sefton England109
9Fife Scotland98
10North Yorkshire England97
11Essex England90
12Telford and Wrekin England87
13West Berkshire England85
14City of Edinburgh Scotland84
15Norfolk England77
5,248 England914 Scotland69 Wales23 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,582
Peak month
May
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Myosotis arvensis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
45,468
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Myosotis
Name with authority
Myosotis arvensis (L.) Hill
Contributing datasets
49

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q163582 · GBIF 5341170