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Common Pocket-moss

Fissidens taxifolius

19,854Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2,010
Feb2,137
Mar2,696
Apr2,076
May1,373
Jun1,075
Jul1,082
Aug961
Sep1,144
Oct1,593
Nov1,822
Dec1,636

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England1,208
2Suffolk England843
3Highland Scotland627
4Somerset England576
5Carmarthenshire Wales570
6Pembrokeshire Wales536
7Norfolk England517
8North Yorkshire England494
9Northamptonshire England472
10Cornwall England463
11Gloucestershire England428
12Kent England422
13Monmouthshire Wales396
14Devon England346
15Cumbria England339
13,981 England2,092 Scotland3,514 Wales257 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
19,854
Peak month
March
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Fissidens taxifolius
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
20,479
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Dicranales
Family
Fissidentaceae
Genus
Fissidens
Name with authority
Fissidens taxifolius Hedw.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q725466 · GBIF 5283263