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Perforate St John's-wort

Hypericum perforatum

5,101Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
106Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb9
Mar28
Apr121
May332
Jun959
Jul1,345
Aug873
Sep424
Oct179
Nov62
Dec12

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England668
2Oxfordshire England175
3Suffolk England125
4Norfolk England113
5Essex England109
6Herefordshire, County of England102
7Portsmouth England86
8Cambridgeshire England72
9Surrey England65
10West Berkshire England61
11Rutland England57
12Rotherham England56
13Fife Scotland52
14Sefton England51
15Gloucestershire England48
4,485 England298 Scotland110 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 106 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,101
Peak month
July
Counties with records
106
Scientific name
Hypericum perforatum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
30,150
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Hypericaceae
Genus
Hypericum
Name with authority
Hypericum perforatum L.
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158289 · GBIF 3189486