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Mouse-ear-hawkweed

Pilosella officinarum

6,138Records since 2000
JunePeak month
105Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan17
Feb29
Mar53
Apr277
May995
Jun1,257
Jul995
Aug696
Sep368
Oct116
Nov40
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,180
2Highland Scotland283
3Argyll and Bute Scotland203
4Cumbria England165
5North Yorkshire England157
6Suffolk England138
7Powys Wales135
8Herefordshire, County of England108
9Norfolk England96
10Sefton England83
11Devon England76
12Rotherham England70
13Dorset England66
14Oxfordshire England62
15Gloucestershire England62
4,464 England817 Scotland357 Wales26 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 105 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,138
Peak month
June
Counties with records
105
Scientific name
Pilosella officinarum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
36,773
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Pilosella
Name with authority
Pilosella officinarum F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip., 1862
Described
1862
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7874303