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Yarrow

Achillea millefolium

27,652Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan467
Feb314
Mar543
Apr1,875
May2,344
Jun3,757
Jul5,115
Aug4,445
Sep2,812
Oct1,539
Nov817
Dec458

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,899
2Sefton England1,298
3Essex England958
4Highland Scotland616
5Suffolk England540
6Norfolk England511
7Cambridgeshire England503
8Argyll and Bute Scotland469
9Oxfordshire England467
10North Yorkshire England431
11Herefordshire, County of England402
12Cumbria England359
13Powys Wales325
14Devon England297
15Cornwall England284
22,577 England2,927 Scotland1,104 Wales100 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
27,652
Peak month
July
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Achillea millefolium
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
83,401
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Achillea
Name with authority
Achillea millefolium L.
Contributing datasets
69

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25408 · GBIF 3120060