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Hoary Ragwort

Jacobaea erucifolia

2,595Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
79Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb3
Mar6
Apr66
May206
Jun486
Jul523
Aug628
Sep328
Oct111
Nov39
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England170
2Portsmouth England137
3Worcestershire England109
4Oxfordshire England95
5Cambridgeshire England88
6Suffolk England78
7Surrey England54
8Devon England51
9Doncaster England50
10Kent England35
11Rotherham England34
12Norfolk England30
13North Tyneside England28
14Dorset England22
15North Yorkshire England22
2,367 England4 Scotland33 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 79 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,595
Peak month
August
Counties with records
79
Scientific name
Jacobaea erucifolia
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,839
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Jacobaea
Name with authority
Jacobaea erucifolia (L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 10487667