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Love-in-a-mist

Nigella damascena

564Records since 2000
JunePeak month
51Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb9
Mar8
Apr29
May88
Jun178
Jul98
Aug48
Sep48
Oct26
Nov11
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England12
2Worcestershire England12
3Norfolk England11
4Kent England10
5Surrey England10
6Northamptonshire England9
7Tameside England8
8Gloucestershire England7
9Sefton England7
10Portsmouth England7
11Cambridgeshire England6
12Somerset England6
13Nottingham England6
14Dudley England6
15Cornwall England5
543 England7 Scotland6 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 51 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
564
Peak month
June
Counties with records
51
Scientific name
Nigella damascena
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,324
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Nigella
Name with authority
Nigella damascena L.
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158338 · GBIF 5371702