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Great Mullein

Verbascum thapsus

2,636Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
103Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb35
Mar69
Apr125
May182
Jun439
Jul548
Aug360
Sep203
Oct156
Nov70
Dec33

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England370
2Suffolk England103
3Oxfordshire England86
4Sefton England74
5Norfolk England65
6Devon England49
7Cambridgeshire England47
8Herefordshire, County of England45
9Surrey England38
10West Berkshire England35
11North Yorkshire England30
12Essex England29
13Highland Scotland28
14Kent England27
15Cumbria England27
2,204 England109 Scotland70 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,636
Peak month
July
Counties with records
103
Scientific name
Verbascum thapsus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,263
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Scrophulariaceae
Genus
Verbascum
Name with authority
Verbascum thapsus L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q160095 · GBIF 3171949