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Welted Thistle

Carduus crispus

1,808Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb3
Mar6
Apr49
May146
Jun393
Jul499
Aug316
Sep113
Oct40
Nov14
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England209
2Oxfordshire England147
3Essex England106
4Cambridgeshire England90
5Suffolk England64
6Kent England50
7West Berkshire England30
8Surrey England27
9Gloucestershire England23
10Herefordshire, County of England22
11York England21
12North Yorkshire England20
13Northamptonshire England18
14Fife Scotland18
15Nottingham England16
1,707 England61 Scotland9 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,808
Peak month
July
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Carduus crispus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,238
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Carduus
Name with authority
Carduus crispus L.
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q926838 · GBIF 3114649