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Lesser Celandine

Ficaria verna

21,114Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan525
Feb1,689
Mar5,453
Apr7,800
May2,928
Jun406
Jul69
Aug43
Sep32
Oct16
Nov37
Dec182

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,847
2Essex England543
3Sheffield England522
4North Yorkshire England353
5Highland Scotland346
6Norfolk England309
7Sefton England302
8Suffolk England300
9Oxfordshire England278
10Herefordshire, County of England265
11Devon England262
12Cumbria England261
13Powys Wales242
14Argyll and Bute Scotland225
15Cambridgeshire England218
17,266 England1,885 Scotland852 Wales191 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
21,114
Peak month
April
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Ficaria verna
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
59,246
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Ficaria
Name with authority
Ficaria verna Huds.
Contributing datasets
56

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157557 · GBIF 9094061