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Queen Anne's Lace

Daucus carota

8,098Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
115Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan67
Feb56
Mar59
Apr224
May397
Jun1,416
Jul2,390
Aug1,796
Sep762
Oct368
Nov171
Dec110

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England326
2Sefton England312
3Essex England267
4Portsmouth England219
5Cambridgeshire England218
6Halton England194
7Worcestershire England186
8Kent England170
9Oxfordshire England163
10Devon England146
11Norfolk England142
12Suffolk England141
13Pembrokeshire Wales110
14Brighton and Hove England89
15Dorset England84
6,897 England331 Scotland371 Wales33 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,098
Peak month
July
Counties with records
115
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Daucus carota
Also known as
Carrots
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,379
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Daucus
Name with authority
Daucus carota L.
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q30056 · GBIF 3034742