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Great Lettuce

Lactuca virosa

956Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb29
Mar52
Apr105
May150
Jun138
Jul213
Aug93
Sep49
Oct22
Nov16
Dec29

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England72
2Cambridgeshire England62
3Suffolk England55
4Norfolk England52
5Surrey England32
6Oxfordshire England28
7Lincolnshire England18
8Northamptonshire England15
9West Berkshire England14
10York England14
11Cumbria England11
12Dudley England11
13Kent England10
14Worcestershire England9
15Sefton England9
839 England11 Scotland1 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
956
Peak month
July
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Lactuca virosa
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,708
Most recorded in
Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Lactuca
Name with authority
Lactuca virosa L.
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q578927 · GBIF 3140346