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Cock's-foot

Dactylis glomerata

28,426Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan355
Feb419
Mar538
Apr1,571
May3,904
Jun6,192
Jul4,348
Aug3,123
Sep1,907
Oct952
Nov611
Dec337

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England3,503
2Sefton England1,106
3Highland Scotland793
4Oxfordshire England731
5Cambridgeshire England708
6North Yorkshire England589
7Norfolk England570
8Argyll and Bute Scotland566
9Herefordshire, County of England519
10Cornwall England431
11Suffolk England429
12Essex England419
13Sheffield England395
14Fife Scotland347
15Devon England331
23,195 England3,225 Scotland1,001 Wales76 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
28,426
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Dactylis glomerata
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
92,495
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Dactylis
Name with authority
Dactylis glomerata L.
Contributing datasets
63

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161735 · GBIF 2705308