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Mugwort

Artemisia vulgaris

10,551Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
111Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan66
Feb67
Mar78
Apr543
May798
Jun1,233
Jul2,429
Aug2,317
Sep1,074
Oct566
Nov264
Dec89

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England877
2Worcestershire England748
3Cambridgeshire England333
4Oxfordshire England316
5Norfolk England279
6Halton England259
7Liverpool England250
8Essex England224
9Suffolk England219
10St. Helens England168
11Portsmouth England164
12Telford and Wrekin England156
13West Berkshire England149
14Surrey England132
15Sheffield England107
8,463 England255 Scotland103 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 111 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,551
Peak month
July
Counties with records
111
Scientific name
Artemisia vulgaris
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
38,017
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Artemisia
Name with authority
Artemisia vulgaris L.
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26663 · GBIF 3120946