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Japanese Rose

Rosa rugosa

9,179Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan33
Feb24
Mar61
Apr393
May1,088
Jun1,482
Jul1,733
Aug2,280
Sep1,365
Oct454
Nov142
Dec39

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England526
2Highland Scotland273
3Cornwall England235
4Fife Scotland192
5Devon England184
6Cumbria England159
7Norfolk England154
8Halton England151
9North Yorkshire England144
10Suffolk England141
11Kent England134
12City of Edinburgh Scotland126
13Swansea Wales121
14Dorset England104
15Gwynedd Wales104
1,861 England387 Scotland484 Wales25 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
9,179
Peak month
August
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Rosa rugosa
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,708
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Rosa
Name with authority
Rosa rugosa Thunb.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q634975 · GBIF 3003979