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Tormentil

Potentilla erecta

20,922Records since 2000
JunePeak month
113Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb6
Mar60
Apr394
May2,601
Jun4,987
Jul4,507
Aug3,408
Sep1,926
Oct419
Nov69
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland3,254
2Worcestershire England1,500
3Argyll and Bute Scotland1,281
4Pembrokeshire Wales908
5Powys Wales849
6Cumbria England784
7North Yorkshire England716
8Perth and Kinross Scotland639
9Devon England504
10Ceredigion Wales457
11Cornwall England431
12Gwynedd Wales408
13Sheffield England369
14South Ayrshire Scotland322
15Aberdeenshire Scotland296
8,111 England7,438 Scotland3,266 Wales198 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 113 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
20,922
Peak month
June
Counties with records
113
Scientific name
Potentilla erecta
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
56,406
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Potentilla
Name with authority
Potentilla erecta (L.) Raeusch.
Contributing datasets
63

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q160098 · GBIF 5365576