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Wood Crane's-bill

Geranium sylvaticum

1,280Records since 2000
JunePeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr20
May306
Jun495
Jul205
Aug90
Sep52
Oct10
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland163
2Cumbria England147
3Perth and Kinross Scotland128
4North Yorkshire England85
5Scottish Borders Scotland34
6Dumfries and Galloway Scotland32
7Worcestershire England31
8Stirling Scotland26
9Argyll and Bute Scotland17
10Aberdeenshire Scotland17
11West Lothian Scotland15
12East Lothian Scotland14
13City of Edinburgh Scotland12
14Moray Scotland9
15Midlothian Scotland9
468 England445 Scotland6 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,280
Peak month
June
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Geranium sylvaticum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,933
Conservation designations
Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Geraniales
Family
Geraniaceae
Genus
Geranium
Name with authority
Geranium sylvaticum L.
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161644 · GBIF 2891147