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Bottle Sedge

Carex rostrata

2,462Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
75Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan11
Feb8
Mar3
Apr31
May177
Jun598
Jul748
Aug399
Sep188
Oct25
Nov7
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland323
2Ceredigion Wales152
3Isle of Anglesey Wales138
4Powys Wales123
5Argyll and Bute Scotland122
6Worcestershire England117
7Cumbria England110
8Gwynedd Wales91
9Pembrokeshire Wales83
10Norfolk England78
11Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland75
12Scottish Borders Scotland55
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland52
14Fife Scotland49
15North Lanarkshire Scotland43
632 England968 Scotland677 Wales108 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 75 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,462
Peak month
July
Counties with records
75
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Carex rostrata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,380
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex rostrata Stokes
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157924 · GBIF 2726725