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Creeping Bent

Agrostis stolonifera

13,035Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
111Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan41
Feb69
Mar114
Apr255
May793
Jun1,848
Jul2,794
Aug2,427
Sep1,046
Oct1,092
Nov118
Dec62

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,668
2Norfolk England663
3Cambridgeshire England503
4Carmarthenshire Wales431
5Herefordshire, County of England395
6Suffolk England378
7Highland Scotland361
8Pembrokeshire Wales298
9North Yorkshire England267
10Powys Wales267
11Cumbria England222
12Gwynedd Wales209
13Oxfordshire England207
14Devon England190
15Essex England165
9,530 England1,561 Scotland1,664 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 111 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,035
Peak month
July
Counties with records
111
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Agrostis stolonifera
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
69,740
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Agrostis
Name with authority
Agrostis stolonifera L.
Contributing datasets
66

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q163963 · GBIF 2706435