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Greater Sea-spurrey

Spergularia media

1,691Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
38Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb4
Mar1
Apr0
May21
Jun117
Jul155
Aug191
Sep264
Oct909
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Swansea Wales316
2Carmarthenshire Wales212
3Gwynedd Wales143
4Ceredigion Wales114
5Essex England53
6Pembrokeshire Wales46
7Cumbria England32
8Suffolk England29
9Highland Scotland29
10Portsmouth England29
11Isle of Anglesey Wales27
12Cambridgeshire England23
13Argyll and Bute Scotland22
14Norfolk England17
15Devon England8
463 England93 Scotland1,109 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 38 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,691
Peak month
October
Counties with records
38
Scientific name
Spergularia media
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,974
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Spergularia
Name with authority
Spergularia media (L.) C.Presl
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7570897