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Downy alpine oat grass

Avenula pubescens

1,039Records since 2000
JunePeak month
50Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar3
Apr16
May102
Jun357
Jul248
Aug159
Sep29
Oct11
Nov0
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland55
2Gwynedd Wales53
3Worcestershire England51
4Argyll and Bute Scotland39
5North Yorkshire England32
6Dorset England22
7Somerset England21
8Cumbria England19
9Rutland England16
10Gloucestershire England15
11Cambridgeshire England14
12Oxfordshire England12
13Suffolk England10
14Kent England7
15Lincolnshire England7
804 England124 Scotland70 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 50 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,039
Peak month
June
Counties with records
50
Scientific name
Avenula pubescens
Also known as
Downy Oat-grass
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,730
Most recorded in
Highland, Gwynedd, Worcestershire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Avenula
Name with authority
Avenula pubescens (Huds.) Dumort.
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21152772 · GBIF 2703793