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Appleyard's Feather-moss

Scleropodium cespitans

1,554Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan149
Feb183
Mar224
Apr137
May116
Jun100
Jul73
Aug102
Sep78
Oct98
Nov97
Dec168

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Ceredigion Wales153
2Devon England127
3Conwy Wales117
4Cornwall England85
5Gwynedd Wales60
6Somerset England51
7Isle of Anglesey Wales44
8Gloucestershire England42
9Powys Wales42
10Worcestershire England31
11Essex England30
12Monmouthshire Wales30
13Nottinghamshire England26
14Cambridgeshire England25
15Pembrokeshire Wales25
986 England29 Scotland507 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,554
Peak month
March
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Scleropodium cespitans
Also known as
Tufted Feather-moss
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,620
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Hypnales
Family
Brachytheciaceae
Genus
Scleropodium
Name with authority
Scleropodium cespitans (Müll.Hal.) L.F.Koch
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15561056 · GBIF 2679837