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Field Dog-lichen

Peltigera rufescens

498Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
50Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb18
Mar30
Apr42
May69
Jun40
Jul70
Aug53
Sep52
Oct37
Nov42
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland40
2Somerset England25
3North Yorkshire England21
4Pembrokeshire Wales19
5Devon England17
6Cumbria England16
7East Lothian Scotland14
8Suffolk England13
9Perth and Kinross Scotland13
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland13
11Aberdeenshire Scotland9
12Moray Scotland9
13Cornwall England8
14Argyll and Bute Scotland8
15Kent England7
299 England131 Scotland62 Wales

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
498
Peak month
July
Counties with records
50
Scientific name
Peltigera rufescens
Group
Lichens
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Ascomycota
Class
Lecanoromycetes
Order
Peltigerales
Family
Peltigeraceae
Genus
Peltigera
Name with authority
Peltigera rufescens (Weiss) Humb.
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10549593 · GBIF 2601176