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Groundsel

Senecio vulgaris

16,933Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan917
Feb727
Mar1,220
Apr3,076
May1,976
Jun1,309
Jul1,321
Aug1,346
Sep1,166
Oct884
Nov686
Dec659

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,455
2Sefton England1,356
3Essex England446
4Highland Scotland431
5Oxfordshire England388
6Suffolk England362
7Norfolk England268
8Cambridgeshire England242
9Fife Scotland240
10City of Edinburgh Scotland204
11Liverpool England202
12Telford and Wrekin England179
13Halton England171
14Herefordshire, County of England169
15York England165
13,869 England1,552 Scotland237 Wales78 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
16,933
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Senecio vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
57,378
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Senecio
Name with authority
Senecio vulgaris L.
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q504256 · GBIF 3108983