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Petty Spurge

Euphorbia peplus

7,495Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan368
Feb254
Mar331
Apr797
May495
Jun760
Jul1,072
Aug1,002
Sep738
Oct557
Nov381
Dec318

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England601
2Worcestershire England353
3Oxfordshire England211
4Surrey England143
5Norfolk England130
6Essex England102
7Halton England101
8Portsmouth England100
9Cambridgeshire England99
10Kent England91
11Suffolk England90
12West Berkshire England82
13Kingston upon Hull, City of England79
14Cornwall England76
15North Tyneside England70
5,390 England184 Scotland88 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 112 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,495
Peak month
July
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Euphorbia peplus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
28,635
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Euphorbiaceae
Genus
Euphorbia
Name with authority
Euphorbia peplus L.
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q148924 · GBIF 3066386