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Small Scabious

Scabiosa columbaria

1,851Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
50Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb1
Mar5
Apr20
May56
Jun287
Jul649
Aug445
Sep207
Oct72
Nov33
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England57
2North Yorkshire England57
3Oxfordshire England56
4Cumbria England54
5Dorset England52
6Portsmouth England43
7Cambridgeshire England42
8Norfolk England33
9Gloucestershire England27
10Brighton and Hove England23
11Worcestershire England21
12Rutland England20
13Isle of Wight England20
14Kent England18
15Suffolk England16
1,693 England2 Scotland32 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 50 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,851
Peak month
July
Counties with records
50
Scientific name
Scabiosa columbaria
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,804
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Dipsacales
Family
Caprifoliaceae
Genus
Scabiosa
Name with authority
Scabiosa columbaria L.
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159263 · GBIF 2888802