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Creeping Soft-grass

Holcus mollis

5,895Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
95Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb17
Mar85
Apr270
May602
Jun835
Jul1,119
Aug707
Sep231
Oct70
Nov20
Dec12

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,584
2Sheffield England446
3Highland Scotland368
4Argyll and Bute Scotland196
5Herefordshire, County of England180
6Powys Wales104
7Telford and Wrekin England95
8North Yorkshire England90
9Essex England87
10Rotherham England81
11Devon England77
12Norfolk England75
13Suffolk England70
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland70
15Aberdeenshire Scotland66
4,271 England1,206 Scotland235 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 95 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,895
Peak month
July
Counties with records
95
Scientific name
Holcus mollis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
40,606
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Holcus
Name with authority
Holcus mollis L.
Contributing datasets
52

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158965 · GBIF 2706163