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Small Burnet

Poterium sanguisorba

4,541Records since 2000
JunePeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan35
Feb47
Mar89
Apr437
May949
Jun958
Jul704
Aug577
Sep292
Oct105
Nov53
Dec45

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England208
2Worcestershire England194
3Gloucestershire England136
4Somerset England97
5Oxfordshire England93
6Dorset England80
7Cumbria England68
8Cambridgeshire England66
9Sefton England61
10Portsmouth England52
11Kent England50
12Surrey England49
13Suffolk England40
14Brighton and Hove England39
15Rutland England37
4,151 England42 Scotland154 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,541
Peak month
June
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Poterium sanguisorba
Also known as
Salad Burnet
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,810
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Poterium
Name with authority
Poterium sanguisorba L.
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21877146 · GBIF 5364245