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Greater Butterfly-orchid

Platanthera chlorantha

1,408Records since 2000
JunePeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr34
May230
Jun617
Jul265
Aug11
Sep1
Oct0
Nov2
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England147
2Gwynedd Wales108
3Highland Scotland99
4Powys Wales74
5Cumbria England59
6Argyll and Bute Scotland46
7Stirling Scotland39
8Carmarthenshire Wales36
9South Ayrshire Scotland35
10Kent England33
11Herefordshire, County of England33
12North Yorkshire England28
13North Ayrshire Scotland22
14North Lanarkshire Scotland21
15Gloucestershire England19
698 England343 Scotland249 Wales33 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,408
Peak month
June
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Platanthera chlorantha
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,194
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Platanthera
Name with authority
Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb.
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157889 · GBIF 2797913