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Fern-grass

Catapodium rigidum

933Records since 2000
JunePeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb21
Mar21
Apr23
May165
Jun242
Jul133
Aug88
Sep33
Oct45
Nov25
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England80
2Norfolk England55
3Suffolk England24
4Devon England24
5Portsmouth England24
6Cambridgeshire England23
7Oxfordshire England20
8Kent England19
9North Yorkshire England18
10Essex England13
11Kingston upon Hull, City of England13
12Cornwall England12
13Northamptonshire England10
14North Tyneside England10
15Gwynedd Wales9
862 England11 Scotland34 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
933
Peak month
June
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Catapodium rigidum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,330
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Norfolk
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Catapodium
Name with authority
Catapodium rigidum (L.) C.E.Hubb.
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q12346079 · GBIF 2705228