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Wood Anemone

Anemone nemorosa

10,279Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
118Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb33
Mar1,841
Apr4,363
May1,869
Jun616
Jul300
Aug108
Sep48
Oct7
Nov5
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,053
2Highland Scotland463
3Sheffield England291
4Essex England281
5Herefordshire, County of England255
6North Yorkshire England254
7Cumbria England232
8Argyll and Bute Scotland230
9Perth and Kinross Scotland222
10Powys Wales195
11Kent England131
12Surrey England126
13Warrington England123
14Norfolk England93
15Dudley England85
7,641 England1,459 Scotland567 Wales134 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 118 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,279
Peak month
April
Counties with records
118
Scientific name
Anemone nemorosa
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
31,718
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Ranunculaceae
Genus
Anemone
Name with authority
Anemone nemorosa L.
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161056 · GBIF 3033263