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False Oat-grass

Arrhenatherum elatius

16,693Records since 2000
JunePeak month
117Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan91
Feb116
Mar132
Apr429
May1,213
Jun3,734
Jul3,644
Aug2,346
Sep1,232
Oct545
Nov232
Dec88

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,465
2Cambridgeshire England623
3Oxfordshire England604
4Highland Scotland411
5Norfolk England379
6West Berkshire England301
7Suffolk England286
8Essex England274
9North Yorkshire England272
10Herefordshire, County of England266
11Telford and Wrekin England253
12Argyll and Bute Scotland238
13Sefton England218
14Portsmouth England199
15Sheffield England195
14,012 England1,896 Scotland471 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 117 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,693
Peak month
June
Counties with records
117
Scientific name
Arrhenatherum elatius
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
74,590
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Arrhenatherum
Name with authority
Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P.Beauv. ex J.Presl & C.Presl
Contributing datasets
61

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159815 · GBIF 2704505