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Hurtsickle

Centaurea cyanus

1,275Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb2
Mar7
Apr35
May105
Jun313
Jul330
Aug218
Sep126
Oct73
Nov22
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England101
2Norfolk England38
3Worcestershire England37
4Halton England33
5St. Helens England31
6Cambridgeshire England30
7Suffolk England25
8Devon England22
9North Yorkshire England22
10Essex England19
11Oxfordshire England18
12Surrey England18
13City of Edinburgh Scotland18
14Highland Scotland17
15Cornwall England17
1,051 England91 Scotland20 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,275
Peak month
July
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Centaurea cyanus
Also known as
Cornflower
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,654
Most recorded in
Sefton
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – England, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Centaurea
Name with authority
Centaurea cyanus L.
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q156921 · GBIF 3089561