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Lesser Stitchwort

Stellaria graminea

9,336Records since 2000
JunePeak month
118Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb4
Mar23
Apr114
May1,025
Jun3,214
Jul2,125
Aug851
Sep391
Oct152
Nov55
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,245
2Herefordshire, County of England240
3Highland Scotland225
4Cumbria England223
5Essex England218
6Norfolk England208
7North Yorkshire England185
8Devon England179
9Surrey England170
10Powys Wales166
11Argyll and Bute Scotland147
12Perth and Kinross Scotland131
13Suffolk England121
14Fife Scotland120
15Sheffield England94
5,766 England1,033 Scotland307 Wales84 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 118 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,336
Peak month
June
Counties with records
118
Scientific name
Stellaria graminea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
39,588
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Stellaria
Name with authority
Stellaria graminea L.
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157671 · GBIF 5384616