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Wild Onion

Allium vineale

1,630Records since 2000
JunePeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan60
Feb199
Mar139
Apr208
May87
Jun347
Jul326
Aug77
Sep23
Oct16
Nov12
Dec32

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Portsmouth England162
2Oxfordshire England56
3Worcestershire England50
4Essex England44
5Sefton England37
6Herefordshire, County of England34
7Cambridgeshire England30
8Gloucestershire England30
9West Berkshire England30
10Suffolk England23
11Somerset England19
12Dorset England17
13Devon England16
14Surrey England15
15Cumbria England13
1,449 England12 Scotland29 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,630
Peak month
June
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Allium vineale
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
9,876
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Allium
Name with authority
Allium vineale L.
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7792960