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Drooping Bryum

Ptychostomum compactum

518Records since 2000
JunePeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb6
Mar26
Apr76
May83
Jun84
Jul45
Aug34
Sep83
Oct33
Nov26
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales44
2Sefton England39
3Cambridgeshire England34
4Isle of Anglesey Wales33
5Lincolnshire England22
6Gwynedd Wales20
7Suffolk England17
8Highland Scotland15
9Swansea Wales13
10Kent England10
11Cumbria England9
12Ards and North Down Northern Ireland8
13Cornwall England7
14Aberdeenshire Scotland6
15Norfolk England5
245 England67 Scotland182 Wales21 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
518
Peak month
June
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Ptychostomum compactum
Group
Mosses
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Bryales
Family
Bryaceae
Genus
Ptychostomum
Name with authority
Ptychostomum compactum Hornsch.
Contributing datasets
7

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q17282577 · GBIF 8420080