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Early Hair-grass

Aira praecox

1,861Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb5
Mar10
Apr84
May309
Jun282
Jul353
Aug158
Sep106
Oct34
Nov7
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England483
2Highland Scotland173
3Argyll and Bute Scotland99
4Scottish Borders Scotland76
5Suffolk England75
6Portsmouth England69
7Sefton England50
8Powys Wales41
9Cumbria England40
10Norfolk England35
11Herefordshire, County of England30
12Shetland Islands —27
13Surrey England24
14City of Edinburgh Scotland21
15Essex England20
1,196 England526 Scotland86 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,861
Peak month
July
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Aira praecox
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,204
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Aira
Name with authority
Aira praecox L.
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159680 · GBIF 5289582