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Green Alkanet

Pentaglottis sempervirens

37,435Records since 2000
MayPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan169
Feb318
Mar1,902
Apr11,895
May13,273
Jun4,976
Jul1,666
Aug893
Sep680
Oct545
Nov328
Dec214

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England1,186
2Sefton England1,158
3Essex England1,070
4Norfolk England1,063
5Suffolk England1,009
6Kent England947
7Cambridgeshire England899
8Worcestershire England881
9Oxfordshire England866
10Devon England626
11City of Edinburgh Scotland579
12Gloucestershire England484
13Lincolnshire England448
14Cornwall England414
15Somerset England412
9,743 England483 Scotland120 Wales23 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
37,435
Peak month
May
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Pentaglottis sempervirens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,956
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Pentaglottis
Name with authority
Pentaglottis sempervirens (L.) Tausch ex L.H.Bailey
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2761526 · GBIF 2926130