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Red Dead-nettle

Lamium purpureum

12,869Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
116Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan568
Feb747
Mar2,118
Apr3,965
May1,334
Jun524
Jul408
Aug453
Sep446
Oct460
Nov294
Dec373

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,169
2Sefton England678
3Essex England572
4Suffolk England310
5Oxfordshire England297
6Norfolk England290
7Cambridgeshire England234
8Surrey England206
9Kent England188
10Kingston upon Hull, City of England188
11Halton England182
12York England164
13Portsmouth England135
14North Yorkshire England125
15Herefordshire, County of England114
11,703 England484 Scotland118 Wales42 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 116 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
12,869
Peak month
April
Counties with records
116
Scientific name
Lamium purpureum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
41,448
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Lamium
Name with authority
Lamium purpureum L.
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157619 · GBIF 2926682