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Pot Marigold

Calendula officinalis

1,200Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan35
Feb15
Mar27
Apr79
May120
Jun120
Jul217
Aug134
Sep172
Oct132
Nov57
Dec65

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland68
2Sefton England62
3Norfolk England50
4Oxfordshire England41
5Portsmouth England41
6Worcestershire England27
7Suffolk England22
8West Berkshire England20
9Kent England17
10Shetland Islands —17
11Cornwall England16
12Nottingham England16
13Bracknell Forest England16
14Essex England15
15Kingston upon Hull, City of England13
848 England110 Scotland15 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,200
Peak month
July
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Calendula officinalis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,320
Most recorded in
Highland, Sefton, Norfolk
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Calendula
Name with authority
Calendula officinalis L.
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q145930 · GBIF 5391480