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Small Nettle

Urtica urens

1,849Records since 2000
MayPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan93
Feb77
Mar127
Apr191
May203
Jun161
Jul142
Aug133
Sep149
Oct106
Nov80
Dec67

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England258
2Norfolk England74
3Sefton England72
4Suffolk England69
5Telford and Wrekin England48
6York England42
7Cambridgeshire England38
8Kingston upon Hull, City of England38
9Surrey England35
10North Yorkshire England29
11Essex England28
12Oxfordshire England19
13East Riding of Yorkshire England17
14North Lincolnshire England17
15Herefordshire, County of England16
1,544 England42 Scotland10 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,849
Peak month
May
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Urtica urens
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,744
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Urticaceae
Genus
Urtica
Name with authority
Urtica urens L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157175 · GBIF 5361815