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Great Burnet

Sanguisorba officinalis

3,110Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
81Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar8
Apr143
May261
Jun661
Jul1,057
Aug627
Sep183
Oct44
Nov11
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England305
2North Yorkshire England216
3Powys Wales105
4Nottinghamshire England71
5York England64
6Oxfordshire England63
7Cornwall England53
8Gloucestershire England53
9Rutland England50
10Doncaster England46
11Somerset England45
12Salford England44
13Northamptonshire England38
14Lincolnshire England30
15Rotherham England24
1,858 England27 Scotland123 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,110
Peak month
July
Counties with records
81
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Sanguisorba officinalis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,850
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Sanguisorba
Name with authority
Sanguisorba officinalis L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157347 · GBIF 3029627