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Crested Dog's-tail

Cynosurus cristatus

11,688Records since 2000
JunePeak month
119Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb32
Mar98
Apr187
May955
Jun3,494
Jul2,257
Aug1,241
Sep593
Oct219
Nov58
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,879
2Argyll and Bute Scotland450
3Highland Scotland405
4Powys Wales393
5Herefordshire, County of England370
6North Yorkshire England367
7Cumbria England270
8Devon England187
9Norfolk England160
10Pembrokeshire Wales153
11Oxfordshire England146
12Sheffield England139
13Gloucestershire England137
14Telford and Wrekin England132
15Essex England129
8,562 England1,639 Scotland1,014 Wales83 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 119 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,688
Peak month
June
Counties with records
119
Scientific name
Cynosurus cristatus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
57,431
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Cynosurus
Name with authority
Cynosurus cristatus L.
Contributing datasets
62

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1813529 · GBIF 2704395