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Red Campion

Silene dioica

28,333Records since 2000
MayPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan195
Feb158
Mar428
Apr4,748
May8,824
Jun4,791
Jul2,429
Aug1,596
Sep1,202
Oct895
Nov454
Dec215

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,467
2Cornwall England884
3Devon England845
4Essex England791
5Sefton England753
6Norfolk England594
7North Yorkshire England507
8Suffolk England437
9Herefordshire, County of England406
10Cumbria England397
11Fife Scotland382
12Liverpool England375
13Argyll and Bute Scotland365
14Oxfordshire England328
15Pembrokeshire Wales327
17,390 England2,596 Scotland1,073 Wales112 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,333
Peak month
May
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Silene dioica
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
59,729
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Silene
Name with authority
Silene dioica (L.) Clairv.
Contributing datasets
61

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161699 · GBIF 5384795