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Winter Aconite

Eranthis hyemalis

2,816Records since 2000
FebruaryPeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan781
Feb1,393
Mar366
Apr185
May44
Jun12
Jul4
Aug0
Sep5
Oct0
Nov0
Dec13

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England203
2Oxfordshire England160
3Suffolk England144
4Norfolk England135
5Essex England98
6North Yorkshire England91
7Lincolnshire England88
8Gloucestershire England80
9Kent England64
10Surrey England52
11East Riding of Yorkshire England48
12Northamptonshire England44
13Cumbria England41
14Fife Scotland41
15City of Edinburgh Scotland39
612 England50 Scotland4 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,816
Peak month
February
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Eranthis hyemalis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,315
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Eranthis
Name with authority
Eranthis hyemalis (L.) Salisb.
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161553 · GBIF 3033227