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Firethorn

Pyracantha coccinea

1,712Records since 2000
JunePeak month
102Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan50
Feb49
Mar34
Apr123
May237
Jun269
Jul134
Aug176
Sep241
Oct216
Nov117
Dec65

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England220
2Surrey England41
3Liverpool England33
4Oxfordshire England32
5Cambridgeshire England29
6Essex England29
7Halton England29
8Devon England27
9Portsmouth England26
10Kent England24
11Northamptonshire England22
12Lincolnshire England19
13Nottinghamshire England19
14Gloucestershire England17
15York England17
643 England11 Scotland8 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 102 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,712
Peak month
June
Counties with records
102
Scientific name
Pyracantha coccinea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,308
Most recorded in
Sefton
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Pyracantha
Name with authority
Pyracantha coccinea M.Roem.
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159269 · GBIF 2988188