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Prickly Lettuce

Lactuca serriola

2,470Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
69Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb6
Mar4
Apr75
May192
Jun406
Jul626
Aug497
Sep217
Oct71
Nov27
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England253
2Sefton England138
3Cambridgeshire England98
4Essex England90
5Oxfordshire England84
6Portsmouth England84
7Suffolk England59
8Telford and Wrekin England56
9Norfolk England52
10Herefordshire, County of England38
11Surrey England29
12West Berkshire England28
13Dudley England23
14Sheffield England21
15Halton England20
2,301 England5 Scotland15 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 69 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,470
Peak month
July
Counties with records
69
Scientific name
Lactuca serriola
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,968
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Lactuca
Name with authority
Lactuca serriola L.
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q533481 · GBIF 3140490