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Snow-in-summer

Cerastium tomentosum

1,898Records since 2000
MayPeak month
117Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb15
Mar41
Apr189
May686
Jun418
Jul145
Aug105
Sep115
Oct54
Nov36
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England103
2Norfolk England48
3Worcestershire England45
4North Yorkshire England43
5Highland Scotland42
6Kent England39
7Cambridgeshire England32
8Gloucestershire England31
9Oxfordshire England28
10Lincolnshire England26
11City of Edinburgh Scotland25
12Suffolk England21
13Surrey England21
14Northamptonshire England21
15Fife Scotland21
610 England82 Scotland17 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 117 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,898
Peak month
May
Counties with records
117
Scientific name
Cerastium tomentosum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,166
Most recorded in
Sefton
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Cerastium
Name with authority
Cerastium tomentosum L.
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q114430 · GBIF 3085438