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Meadowsweet

Filipendula ulmaria

27,430Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan44
Feb38
Mar295
Apr1,765
May2,608
Jun4,651
Jul8,994
Aug3,858
Sep1,441
Oct537
Nov241
Dec72

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,518
2Highland Scotland968
3North Yorkshire England922
4Argyll and Bute Scotland897
5Cumbria England741
6Norfolk England663
7Herefordshire, County of England578
8Powys Wales556
9Devon England478
10Cambridgeshire England430
11Oxfordshire England414
12Fife Scotland375
13Pembrokeshire Wales370
14Sefton England348
15Doncaster England321
13,854 England3,605 Scotland1,509 Wales356 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
27,430
Peak month
July
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Filipendula ulmaria
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
68,307
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Filipendula
Name with authority
Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim.
Contributing datasets
63

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q147176 · GBIF 2987999