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Viper's Bugloss

Echium vulgare

4,846Records since 2000
JunePeak month
111Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb6
Mar14
Apr53
May274
Jun1,808
Jul1,218
Aug683
Sep370
Oct230
Nov90
Dec19

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England295
2Sefton England212
3Norfolk England185
4Kent England185
5Cambridgeshire England155
6Devon England142
7Halton England131
8Portsmouth England113
9East Lothian Scotland106
10Dorset England92
11Surrey England78
12City of Edinburgh Scotland75
13Worcestershire England69
14North Ayrshire Scotland69
15Lincolnshire England61
3,066 England370 Scotland156 Wales25 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 111 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,846
Peak month
June
Counties with records
111
Scientific name
Echium vulgare
Also known as
Viper's-bugloss
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,095
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Boraginales
Family
Boraginaceae
Genus
Echium
Name with authority
Echium vulgare L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157722 · GBIF 2925892