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Lady's Bedstraw

Galium verum

15,904Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb7
Mar18
Apr228
May808
Jun3,667
Jul6,728
Aug2,220
Sep951
Oct243
Nov58
Dec13

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England858
2Oxfordshire England495
3North Yorkshire England439
4Suffolk England431
5Cambridgeshire England414
6Scottish Borders Scotland355
7Highland Scotland348
8Norfolk England337
9Cumbria England322
10Gloucestershire England269
11Essex England265
12Argyll and Bute Scotland214
13Cornwall England204
14Somerset England187
15Kent England175
9,132 England1,696 Scotland445 Wales75 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,904
Peak month
July
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Galium verum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
38,656
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Gentianales
Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Galium
Name with authority
Galium verum L.
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9063248