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Purple Toadflax

Linaria purpurea

6,373Records since 2000
JunePeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan78
Feb85
Mar124
Apr378
May635
Jun1,483
Jul1,099
Aug795
Sep678
Oct474
Nov211
Dec92

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England194
2Sefton England165
3Essex England157
4Norfolk England142
5Surrey England138
6Kent England127
7Oxfordshire England126
8Suffolk England115
9City of Edinburgh Scotland109
10Highland Scotland95
11Cornwall England95
12Devon England94
13Sheffield England94
14Portsmouth England85
15Cambridgeshire England84
3,867 England379 Scotland98 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,373
Peak month
June
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Linaria purpurea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,675
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Linaria
Name with authority
Linaria purpurea (L.) Mill.
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q6550284 · GBIF 5415012