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Heath Spotted-orchid

Dactylorhiza maculata

15,205Records since 2000
JunePeak month
120Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb5
Mar8
Apr175
May1,428
Jun8,081
Jul3,831
Aug433
Sep85
Oct23
Nov3
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,228
2Worcestershire England878
3Argyll and Bute Scotland606
4North Yorkshire England420
5Cumbria England410
6Oxfordshire England281
7Norfolk England253
8Pembrokeshire Wales237
9Herefordshire, County of England236
10Powys Wales217
11Kent England181
12Surrey England176
13Gloucestershire England156
14Suffolk England148
15Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland145
8,907 England2,923 Scotland858 Wales258 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 120 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,205
Peak month
June
Counties with records
120
Scientific name
Dactylorhiza maculata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
15,357
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Orchidaceae
Genus
Dactylorhiza
Name with authority
Dactylorhiza maculata (L.) Soó
Contributing datasets
60

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8179794