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Perennial Cornflower

Centaurea montana

851Records since 2000
MayPeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar19
Apr141
May306
Jun174
Jul55
Aug40
Sep41
Oct19
Nov3
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England54
2Highland Scotland29
3Sefton England20
4Cumbria England19
5York England18
6Glasgow City Scotland17
7Oxfordshire England12
8North Yorkshire England11
9City of Edinburgh Scotland11
10Powys Wales11
11Sheffield England11
12Herefordshire, County of England9
13Nottingham England9
14Dudley England9
15Fife Scotland8
642 England111 Scotland23 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
851
Peak month
May
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Centaurea montana
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,963
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Centaurea
Name with authority
Centaurea montana L.
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q819191 · GBIF 9023462