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Welsh Poppy

Papaver cambricum

3,384Records since 2000
MayPeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb20
Mar77
Apr581
May1,049
Jun623
Jul338
Aug168
Sep134
Oct130
Nov44
Dec18

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England183
2Cumbria England129
3Sefton England125
4Highland Scotland103
5City of Edinburgh Scotland80
6Sheffield England74
7North Yorkshire England69
8North Tyneside England65
9Argyll and Bute Scotland61
10Powys Wales53
11Oxfordshire England46
12Shetland Islands —38
13Fife Scotland36
14Devon England35
15Perth and Kinross Scotland34
2,514 England553 Scotland144 Wales24 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,384
Peak month
May
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Papaver cambricum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,236
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Papaveraceae
Genus
Papaver
Name with authority
Papaver cambricum L.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21876094 · GBIF 3602683