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Wood Avens

Geum urbanum

26,690Records since 2000
MayPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan503
Feb632
Mar900
Apr3,643
May4,868
Jun4,184
Jul2,577
Aug2,333
Sep1,537
Oct979
Nov810
Dec727

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,985
2Sefton England1,850
3Essex England575
4Sheffield England560
5Oxfordshire England506
6Liverpool England419
7Herefordshire, County of England418
8North Yorkshire England409
9Devon England305
10Surrey England285
11Telford and Wrekin England280
12Halton England257
13Fife Scotland251
14Suffolk England248
15Powys Wales242
22,747 England1,766 Scotland1,164 Wales128 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
26,690
Peak month
May
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Geum urbanum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
70,467
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Geum
Name with authority
Geum urbanum L.
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157407 · GBIF 5369652