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Hogweed

Heracleum sphondylium

38,903Records since 2000
JunePeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan404
Feb280
Mar959
Apr4,048
May5,465
Jun8,153
Jul7,015
Aug3,980
Sep2,292
Oct1,438
Nov908
Dec417

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,376
2Sefton England1,109
3Oxfordshire England902
4North Yorkshire England876
5Essex England749
6Highland Scotland703
7Cambridgeshire England644
8Norfolk England633
9Cornwall England566
10Suffolk England537
11Herefordshire, County of England527
12Devon England508
13Sheffield England462
14Kent England453
15Cumbria England449
27,544 England3,031 Scotland1,096 Wales175 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
38,903
Peak month
June
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Heracleum sphondylium
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
87,940
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Heracleum
Name with authority
Heracleum sphondylium L.
Contributing datasets
65

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q752675 · GBIF 3034830