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Greater Periwinkle [plant]

Vinca major

5,258Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan182
Feb261
Mar786
Apr1,678
May1,189
Jun291
Jul136
Aug103
Sep78
Oct82
Nov102
Dec126

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England240
2Sefton England176
3Norfolk England132
4Essex England127
5Devon England117
6Suffolk England115
7Oxfordshire England109
8Cambridgeshire England107
9Kent England103
10Surrey England99
11Cornwall England76
12Dorset England64
13Portsmouth England64
14York England58
15North Yorkshire England57
2,499 England85 Scotland93 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,258
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Vinca major
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,794
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Apocynaceae
Genus
Vinca
Name with authority
Vinca major L.
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161746 · GBIF 3169708