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Ribwort Plantain

Plantago lanceolata

39,026Records since 2000
JunePeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan486
Feb603
Mar965
Apr4,873
May6,253
Jun6,638
Jul5,373
Aug4,485
Sep2,818
Oct1,321
Nov676
Dec402

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,275
2Sefton England2,034
3Highland Scotland1,406
4Argyll and Bute Scotland900
5Essex England790
6North Yorkshire England667
7Cornwall England634
8Oxfordshire England627
9Herefordshire, County of England582
10Norfolk England564
11Suffolk England554
12Devon England553
13Cambridgeshire England533
14Halton England524
15Cumbria England494
30,468 England5,328 Scotland1,933 Wales197 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
39,026
Peak month
June
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Plantago lanceolata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
102,921
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Plantago
Name with authority
Plantago lanceolata L.
Contributing datasets
68

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157408 · GBIF 8208358