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Wall-rue

Asplenium ruta-muraria

5,522Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
115Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan298
Feb240
Mar349
Apr647
May558
Jun594
Jul577
Aug501
Sep473
Oct375
Nov258
Dec270

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England394
2Sefton England344
3City of Edinburgh Scotland149
4North Yorkshire England140
5Fife Scotland125
6Argyll and Bute Scotland121
7Cumbria England115
8Highland Scotland100
9Sheffield England91
10North Tyneside England78
11York England70
12Perth and Kinross Scotland64
13Oxfordshire England61
14Devon England50
15Herefordshire, County of England49
4,246 England840 Scotland232 Wales56 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,522
Peak month
April
Counties with records
115
Scientific name
Asplenium ruta-muraria
Group
Ferns and horsetails
NBN Atlas records since 2000
21,999
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Polypodiopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Aspleniaceae
Genus
Asplenium
Name with authority
Asplenium ruta-muraria L.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1125768 · GBIF 2650625