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Dover grass

Lolium pratense

1,333Records since 2000
JunePeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr11
May122
Jun420
Jul255
Aug115
Sep39
Oct18
Nov3
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England199
2Oxfordshire England70
3Norfolk England49
4Herefordshire, County of England44
5Cambridgeshire England43
6North Yorkshire England41
7Telford and Wrekin England29
8Gloucestershire England28
9Essex England22
10Cumbria England19
11Suffolk England17
12Northamptonshire England16
13Fife Scotland15
14Dorset England14
15Devon England12
1,204 England62 Scotland28 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,333
Peak month
June
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Lolium pratense
Group
Flowering plants
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Oxfordshire
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Lolium
Name with authority
Lolium pratense (Huds.) Darbysh.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q50346813 · GBIF 2706237