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Marsh Thistle

Cirsium palustre

16,059Records since 2000
JunePeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan52
Feb59
Mar183
Apr609
May1,867
Jun3,822
Jul3,568
Aug1,990
Sep897
Oct271
Nov90
Dec46

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,260
2Highland Scotland948
3Argyll and Bute Scotland917
4Powys Wales568
5Norfolk England467
6North Yorkshire England451
7Pembrokeshire Wales388
8Cumbria England347
9Herefordshire, County of England332
10Devon England297
11Sheffield England284
12Cambridgeshire England271
13Cornwall England243
14Perth and Kinross Scotland224
15Essex England180
9,614 England3,164 Scotland1,685 Wales131 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,059
Peak month
June
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Cirsium palustre
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,834
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Cirsium
Name with authority
Cirsium palustre (L.) Scop.
Contributing datasets
62

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q659846 · GBIF 3113239