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Yellow Horned Poppy

Glaucium flavum

1,664Records since 2000
JunePeak month
35Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan22
Feb30
Mar18
Apr69
May189
Jun406
Jul321
Aug253
Sep190
Oct73
Nov51
Dec33

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Suffolk England286
2Norfolk England139
3Kent England127
4Portsmouth England113
5Devon England79
6Dorset England46
7Cambridgeshire England44
8Brighton and Hove England35
9Isle of Anglesey Wales26
10Gwynedd Wales19
11Cumbria England17
12Isle of Wight England16
13Conwy Wales14
14Somerset England13
15Sefton England13
1,078 England10 Scotland57 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 35 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,664
Peak month
June
Counties with records
35
Scientific name
Glaucium flavum
Also known as
Yellow Horned-poppy
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,703
Most recorded in
Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent, Portsmouth, Devon
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Papaveraceae
Genus
Glaucium
Name with authority
Glaucium flavum Crantz
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157916 · GBIF 5334190