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Procumbent Pearlwort

Sagina procumbens

6,809Records since 2000
JunePeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan82
Feb125
Mar210
Apr580
May824
Jun1,052
Jul1,018
Aug675
Sep474
Oct248
Nov124
Dec111

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England972
2Highland Scotland734
3Sefton England485
4Argyll and Bute Scotland447
5Powys Wales108
6Aberdeenshire Scotland89
7Telford and Wrekin England88
8Fife Scotland87
9Oxfordshire England86
10North Tyneside England68
11Norfolk England65
12Herefordshire, County of England65
13City of Edinburgh Scotland63
14Shetland Islands —63
15Suffolk England59
4,241 England1,905 Scotland336 Wales130 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,809
Peak month
June
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Sagina procumbens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
49,957
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Sagina
Name with authority
Sagina procumbens L.
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158209 · GBIF 3085402