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Wild Marjoram

Origanum vulgare

4,725Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb4
Mar14
Apr89
May242
Jun660
Jul1,718
Aug1,179
Sep422
Oct134
Nov33
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England235
2Oxfordshire England189
3Worcestershire England189
4Kent England148
5North Yorkshire England107
6Norfolk England101
7Cambridgeshire England94
8West Berkshire England66
9Portsmouth England63
10Gloucestershire England58
11Suffolk England56
12Rutland England56
13Brighton and Hove England55
14Cumbria England50
15Devon England45
3,201 England82 Scotland50 Wales5 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
4,725
Peak month
July
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Origanum vulgare
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,657
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Origanum
Name with authority
Origanum vulgare L.
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q134283 · GBIF 2926612