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Spurge-laurel

Daphne laureola

1,768Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan115
Feb189
Mar217
Apr234
May212
Jun131
Jul124
Aug98
Sep96
Oct73
Nov71
Dec76

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England140
2Cambridgeshire England90
3Oxfordshire England70
4Norfolk England67
5Herefordshire, County of England60
6Kent England57
7Surrey England54
8Gloucestershire England54
9Northamptonshire England51
10Essex England47
11North Yorkshire England47
12Suffolk England42
13Rutland England27
14Lincolnshire England16
15Somerset England16
1,070 England10 Scotland27 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,768
Peak month
April
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Daphne laureola
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,458
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Malvales
Family
Thymelaeaceae
Genus
Daphne
Name with authority
Daphne laureola L.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161418 · GBIF 5420853