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Nipplewort

Lapsana communis

16,456Records since 2000
JunePeak month
124Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan162
Feb183
Mar289
Apr959
May2,076
Jun3,433
Jul2,789
Aug1,727
Sep1,106
Oct779
Nov418
Dec164

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,359
2Oxfordshire England405
3Sefton England395
4Essex England393
5Suffolk England311
6Highland Scotland288
7Herefordshire, County of England277
8North Yorkshire England252
9Norfolk England251
10Cambridgeshire England207
11Surrey England203
12Telford and Wrekin England197
13East Lothian Scotland190
14Devon England186
15West Berkshire England185
11,581 England1,268 Scotland312 Wales74 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,456
Peak month
June
Counties with records
124
Scientific name
Lapsana communis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,551
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Lapsana
Name with authority
Lapsana communis L.
Contributing datasets
50

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q754672 · GBIF 3134857