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Purple Toothwort

Lathraea clandestina

615Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
44Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb21
Mar129
Apr288
May135
Jun23
Jul3
Aug2
Sep1
Oct1
Nov3
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Lothian Scotland46
2City of Edinburgh Scotland34
3Cambridgeshire England22
4Sefton England20
5North Yorkshire England18
6Essex England17
7Surrey England16
8Norfolk England14
9Kent England14
10Sheffield England14
11Herefordshire, County of England12
12Blackburn with Darwen England12
13Argyll and Bute Scotland11
14Cornwall England6
15Northamptonshire England6
214 England36 Scotland2 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 44 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
615
Peak month
April
Counties with records
44
Scientific name
Lathraea clandestina
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
516
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Orobanchaceae
Genus
Lathraea
Name with authority
Lathraea clandestina L.
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2248907 · GBIF 3738544