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Ground-elder

Aegopodium podagraria

13,554Records since 2000
MayPeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan29
Feb89
Mar661
Apr2,504
May2,699
Jun2,292
Jul1,297
Aug869
Sep673
Oct459
Nov276
Dec119

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,539
2Sefton England1,239
3Highland Scotland591
4Liverpool England403
5Oxfordshire England216
6St. Helens England213
7Surrey England211
8Norfolk England209
9Telford and Wrekin England206
10Halton England177
11North Yorkshire England176
12Cambridgeshire England160
13Cumbria England160
14Herefordshire, County of England157
15Argyll and Bute Scotland150
8,358 England1,489 Scotland126 Wales49 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,554
Peak month
May
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Aegopodium podagraria
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
46,353
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Aegopodium
Name with authority
Aegopodium podagraria L.
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q217778 · GBIF 3034620