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Goat's-beard

Tragopogon pratensis

3,794Records since 2000
JunePeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb1
Mar4
Apr58
May558
Jun1,390
Jul894
Aug325
Sep104
Oct37
Nov12
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England279
2Cambridgeshire England142
3Oxfordshire England137
4Suffolk England114
5Norfolk England100
6Herefordshire, County of England77
7North Yorkshire England75
8Essex England67
9Rutland England50
10Telford and Wrekin England48
11Sefton England47
12Cumbria England46
13North Tyneside England41
14Lincolnshire England38
15Gloucestershire England35
3,320 England102 Scotland87 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,794
Peak month
June
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Tragopogon pratensis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,171
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Tragopogon
Name with authority
Tragopogon pratensis L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1345772 · GBIF 5386897