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Hedge Woundwort

Stachys sylvatica

17,492Records since 2000
JunePeak month
122Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan17
Feb15
Mar94
Apr1,041
May1,662
Jun4,961
Jul3,542
Aug1,727
Sep1,023
Oct559
Nov226
Dec41

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,465
2North Yorkshire England434
3Oxfordshire England409
4Essex England373
5Herefordshire, County of England346
6Norfolk England300
7Sefton England268
8Argyll and Bute Scotland264
9Surrey England248
10Devon England243
11Cumbria England243
12Gloucestershire England211
13Telford and Wrekin England204
14Suffolk England203
15Sheffield England199
12,857 England1,134 Scotland383 Wales77 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
17,492
Peak month
June
Counties with records
122
Scientific name
Stachys sylvatica
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,959
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Stachys
Name with authority
Stachys sylvatica L.
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157422 · GBIF 2927282