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Sea Purslane

Halimione portulacoides

1,735Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
31Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb14
Mar18
Apr40
May70
Jun142
Jul215
Aug305
Sep333
Oct514
Nov26
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales275
2Essex England122
3Pembrokeshire Wales118
4Lincolnshire England77
5Swansea Wales75
6Cambridgeshire England74
7East Riding of Yorkshire England71
8Cumbria England63
9Suffolk England62
10Norfolk England57
11Isle of Anglesey Wales52
12Sefton England22
13East Lothian Scotland22
14Halton England21
15Devon England11
942 England33 Scotland710 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 31 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,735
Peak month
October
Counties with records
31
Scientific name
Halimione portulacoides
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Amaranthaceae
Genus
Halimione
Name with authority
Halimione portulacoides (L.) Aellen
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q888227 · GBIF 3756031