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Common Tamarisk-moss

Thuidium tamariscinum

20,226Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1,467
Feb1,716
Mar2,454
Apr2,253
May1,699
Jun1,799
Jul1,752
Aug1,351
Sep1,378
Oct1,358
Nov1,234
Dec1,237

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,749
2Carmarthenshire Wales895
3Pembrokeshire Wales883
4Cumbria England805
5Ceredigion Wales755
6Powys Wales697
7North Yorkshire England575
8Gwynedd Wales564
9Worcestershire England546
10Argyll and Bute Scotland527
11Cornwall England498
12Devon England498
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland464
14Cambridgeshire England377
15Somerset England365
9,466 England5,073 Scotland5,259 Wales412 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
20,226
Peak month
March
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Thuidium tamariscinum
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
20,935
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Hypnales
Family
Thuidiaceae
Genus
Thuidium
Name with authority
Thuidium tamariscinum (Hedw.) Schimp.
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1777800 · GBIF 2679436