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Capillary Thread-moss

Rosulabryum capillare

31,536Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3,264
Feb3,369
Mar4,433
Apr3,306
May2,281
Jun1,664
Jul1,710
Aug1,574
Sep1,883
Oct2,421
Nov2,786
Dec2,499

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England1,945
2Norfolk England1,907
3Suffolk England1,527
4Highland Scotland851
5North Yorkshire England838
6Carmarthenshire Wales740
7Pembrokeshire Wales647
8Cornwall England641
9Ceredigion Wales641
10Powys Wales598
11Northamptonshire England597
12Somerset England568
13Cumbria England554
14Gloucestershire England543
15Devon England504
22,141 England3,707 Scotland5,268 Wales403 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
31,536
Peak month
March
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Rosulabryum capillare
Group
Mosses
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Bryales
Family
Bryaceae
Genus
Rosulabryum
Name with authority
Rosulabryum capillare (Hedw.) J.R.Spence
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15348741 · GBIF 2677117