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Sticky Mouse-ear

Cerastium glomeratum

6,100Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
118Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan68
Feb101
Mar281
Apr1,429
May1,391
Jun551
Jul294
Aug164
Sep109
Oct76
Nov80
Dec54

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,316
2Sefton England401
3Highland Scotland226
4Telford and Wrekin England122
5Oxfordshire England97
6Herefordshire, County of England96
7Argyll and Bute Scotland91
8Portsmouth England90
9Suffolk England79
10Surrey England66
11Essex England65
12Norfolk England64
13Halton England62
14Cambridgeshire England60
15Fife Scotland59
4,726 England610 Scotland111 Wales24 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 118 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,100
Peak month
April
Counties with records
118
Scientific name
Cerastium glomeratum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
42,735
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Cerastium
Name with authority
Cerastium glomeratum Thuill.
Contributing datasets
44

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1753184 · GBIF 3085440