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Spear Thistle

Cirsium vulgare

24,682Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan316
Feb439
Mar838
Apr2,095
May2,610
Jun3,905
Jul5,067
Aug3,116
Sep1,410
Oct820
Nov502
Dec338

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,911
2Sefton England987
3Essex England716
4Highland Scotland680
5Cambridgeshire England531
6Suffolk England509
7Oxfordshire England465
8Argyll and Bute Scotland432
9North Yorkshire England422
10Norfolk England395
11Halton England386
12Liverpool England356
13Herefordshire, County of England319
14Telford and Wrekin England255
15St. Helens England253
19,590 England2,519 Scotland626 Wales90 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
24,682
Peak month
July
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Cirsium vulgare
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
83,186
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Cirsium
Name with authority
Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten.
Contributing datasets
61

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21177 · GBIF 3112801