Species Detail - Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Species Data from the National Vegetation Database".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
Live Map
Heracleum sphondylium
Hogweed
NBNSYS0000003710 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
hesph
L.
flowering plant
Species
1233
444
104
01/09/1976
03/10/2011
1 January (recorded in 1970)
31 December (recorded in 2017)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Species Data from the National Vegetation Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/186/Species/29130>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)