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Tufted Vetch

Vicia cracca

10,953Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb5
Mar12
Apr112
May407
Jun2,682
Jul3,536
Aug2,007
Sep636
Oct142
Nov44
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,047
2Sefton England300
3Highland Scotland278
4Argyll and Bute Scotland230
5Norfolk England224
6Cumbria England199
7Cambridgeshire England174
8Suffolk England162
9East Lothian Scotland161
10Oxfordshire England150
11North Yorkshire England149
12Essex England144
13Telford and Wrekin England141
14Halton England139
15Herefordshire, County of England124
7,947 England1,691 Scotland471 Wales105 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,953
Peak month
July
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Vicia cracca
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
47,953
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Fabales
Family
Fabaceae
Genus
Vicia
Name with authority
Vicia cracca L.
Contributing datasets
64

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q147159 · GBIF 2975287