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Scented Mayweed

Matricaria chamomilla

2,496Records since 2000
JunePeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb4
Mar3
Apr11
May188
Jun576
Jul470
Aug380
Sep157
Oct62
Nov15
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England622
2Essex England115
3Sefton England102
4Herefordshire, County of England74
5Suffolk England59
6Telford and Wrekin England50
7Halton England45
8Norfolk England39
9Cambridgeshire England33
10North Yorkshire England31
11Liverpool England31
12Oxfordshire England26
13East Riding of Yorkshire England22
14York England22
15Kent England21
2,316 England19 Scotland33 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,496
Peak month
June
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Matricaria chamomilla
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
18,581
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Matricaria
Name with authority
Matricaria chamomilla L.
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28437 · GBIF 8370958