Species Detail - Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Crop Wild Relative 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

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Prunus spinosa
Blackthorn
NBNSYS0000003412 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
prspi
L.
Flowering plant
Species
272
124
39
17/04/2011
09/09/2015
1 January (recorded in 1970)
30 December (recorded in 2004)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Irish Crop Wild Relative Database, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/73/Species/28933

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)