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Greater Plantain

Plantago major

23,502Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan47
Feb45
Mar218
Apr2,170
May2,465
Jun3,607
Jul4,354
Aug3,751
Sep2,316
Oct1,125
Nov369
Dec114

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,608
2Sefton England1,411
3Essex England689
4Highland Scotland524
5Cambridgeshire England502
6Oxfordshire England501
7Argyll and Bute Scotland496
8Suffolk England426
9Norfolk England350
10Liverpool England349
11Halton England310
12North Yorkshire England307
13Herefordshire, County of England281
14Telford and Wrekin England278
15Sheffield England249
17,854 England1,962 Scotland482 Wales61 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
23,502
Peak month
July
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Plantago major
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
79,122
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Plantago
Name with authority
Plantago major L.
Contributing datasets
56

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157154 · GBIF 3189767