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Prickly Sow-thistle

Sonchus asper

11,523Records since 2000
JunePeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan99
Feb125
Mar134
Apr553
May1,346
Jun2,235
Jul1,842
Aug1,437
Sep977
Oct608
Nov351
Dec144

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,460
2Sefton England541
3Highland Scotland441
4Oxfordshire England327
5Suffolk England267
6Essex England237
7Cambridgeshire England215
8Norfolk England200
9Argyll and Bute Scotland181
10Halton England151
11Herefordshire, County of England147
12North Yorkshire England143
13Cornwall England133
14West Berkshire England130
15Telford and Wrekin England125
9,224 England1,297 Scotland283 Wales37 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,523
Peak month
June
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Sonchus asper
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,776
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Sonchus
Name with authority
Sonchus asper (L.) Hill
Contributing datasets
52

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1065570 · GBIF 3105782