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Oriental Poppy

Papaver orientale

1,180Records since 2000
MayPeak month
104Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb5
Mar43
Apr159
May585
Jun348
Jul21
Aug5
Sep3
Oct4
Nov4
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England31
2Essex England29
3North Yorkshire England24
4Sefton England24
5Cambridgeshire England23
6Lincolnshire England20
7Gloucestershire England20
8Suffolk England19
9Oxfordshire England19
10Nottinghamshire England19
11Dorset England18
12Devon England18
13Somerset England18
14Norfolk England17
15Surrey England17
63 England16 Scotland3 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,180
Peak month
May
Counties with records
104
Scientific name
Papaver orientale
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Papaveraceae
Genus
Papaver
Name with authority
Papaver orientale L.
Contributing datasets
4

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149279 · GBIF 2888437