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Thyme-leaved Sandwort

Arenaria serpyllifolia

1,222Records since 2000
JunePeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb2
Mar12
Apr64
May226
Jun278
Jul234
Aug95
Sep47
Oct26
Nov5
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England176
2Suffolk England109
3Sefton England68
4Norfolk England56
5Cambridgeshire England35
6Devon England32
7Cumbria England31
8Oxfordshire England25
9North Yorkshire England19
10Rutland England18
11Lincolnshire England14
12Gloucestershire England14
13Highland Scotland12
14East Lothian Scotland12
15Argyll and Bute Scotland11
1,101 England49 Scotland28 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,222
Peak month
June
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Arenaria serpyllifolia
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,172
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Genus
Arenaria
Name with authority
Arenaria serpyllifolia L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q937450 · GBIF 8089871