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Horseshoe Vetch

Hippocrepis comosa

982Records since 2000
MayPeak month
28Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar3
Apr41
May468
Jun281
Jul73
Aug62
Sep18
Oct5
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England52
2Surrey England29
3Isle of Wight England28
4Oxfordshire England27
5Cumbria England27
6Gloucestershire England25
7Kent England24
8Brighton and Hove England23
9Cambridgeshire England19
10Rutland England12
11West Berkshire England11
12Suffolk England10
13North Yorkshire England10
14Medway England9
15Peterborough England6
893 England3 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 28 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
982
Peak month
May
Counties with records
28
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Hippocrepis comosa
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,542
Most recorded in
Dorset
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Hippocrepis
Name with authority
Hippocrepis comosa L.
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158369 · GBIF 5353750