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Common cord grass, Rice grass, Townsends grass

Sporobolus anglicus

4,974Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb14
Mar11
Apr12
May48
Jun551
Jul1,489
Aug868
Sep723
Oct1,163
Nov54
Dec20

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Swansea Wales433
2East Riding of Yorkshire England261
3Ceredigion Wales242
4Lincolnshire England235
5Pembrokeshire Wales235
6Dorset England226
7Devon England188
8Gwynedd Wales176
9Cambridgeshire England160
10Essex England147
11Thurrock England146
12Carmarthenshire Wales136
13North Lincolnshire England105
14Gloucestershire England60
15Cumbria England60
3,047 England55 Scotland1,856 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,974
Peak month
July
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Sporobolus anglicus
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Sporobolus
Name with authority
Sporobolus anglicus (C.E.Hubb.) P.M.Peterson & Saarela
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q50346690 · GBIF 9398259