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Alta Fescue

Lolium arundinaceum

2,310Records since 2000
JunePeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb16
Mar35
Apr86
May346
Jun450
Jul370
Aug272
Sep148
Oct67
Nov31
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England322
2Oxfordshire England94
3Cambridgeshire England88
4Norfolk England88
5Portsmouth England69
6Telford and Wrekin England61
7Herefordshire, County of England46
8Devon England40
9Gloucestershire England40
10Suffolk England34
11Essex England34
12Argyll and Bute Scotland31
13West Berkshire England30
14North Yorkshire England23
15North Tyneside England18
2,042 England162 Scotland24 Wales16 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,310
Peak month
June
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Lolium arundinaceum
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Lolium
Name with authority
Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q50346809 · GBIF 2706231