About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Yellow Iris
Species · Flowering plants

Yellow Iris

Iris pseudacorus

13,607Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan49
Feb121
Mar315
Apr1,106
May3,503
Jun3,884
Jul1,428
Aug1,203
Sep569
Oct250
Nov83
Dec20

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England864
2Sefton England606
3Argyll and Bute Scotland591
4Norfolk England581
5Highland Scotland297
6Suffolk England289
7Cambridgeshire England286
8Liverpool England218
9Oxfordshire England187
10St. Helens England179
11Essex England170
12North Yorkshire England169
13Pembrokeshire Wales167
14Devon England163
15Surrey England147
8,522 England1,518 Scotland720 Wales202 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
13,607
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Iris pseudacorus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
42,529
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Asparagales
Family
Iridaceae
Genus
Iris
Name with authority
Iris pseudacorus L.
Contributing datasets
67

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21173 · GBIF 5298231