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Meadow Crane's-bill

Geranium pratense

9,089Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
122Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb5
Mar19
Apr242
May635
Jun2,988
Jul3,349
Aug1,072
Sep381
Oct157
Nov38
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England453
2Oxfordshire England321
3Sefton England267
4Cumbria England227
5Gloucestershire England224
6Halton England195
7Worcestershire England137
8Cambridgeshire England133
9Glasgow City Scotland111
10Nottinghamshire England104
11City of Edinburgh Scotland103
12York England102
13Herefordshire, County of England101
14Northamptonshire England92
15Leeds England84
4,063 England424 Scotland66 Wales21 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,089
Peak month
July
Counties with records
122
Scientific name
Geranium pratense
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
16,610
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Geraniales
Family
Geraniaceae
Genus
Geranium
Name with authority
Geranium pratense L.
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157585 · GBIF 2891304