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Floating Sweet-grass

Glyceria fluitans

4,022Records since 2000
JunePeak month
98Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb10
Mar35
Apr123
May395
Jun694
Jul662
Aug557
Sep292
Oct56
Nov30
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England977
2Powys Wales179
3Highland Scotland118
4Norfolk England115
5Suffolk England108
6Herefordshire, County of England96
7Gwynedd Wales93
8Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland77
9Argyll and Bute Scotland73
10North Yorkshire England72
11Pembrokeshire Wales68
12Doncaster England68
13Denbighshire Wales60
14Ceredigion Wales57
15Carmarthenshire Wales56
2,689 England420 Scotland678 Wales125 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,022
Peak month
June
Counties with records
98
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Glyceria fluitans
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
31,947
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Glyceria
Name with authority
Glyceria fluitans (L.) R.Br.
Contributing datasets
49

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159078 · GBIF 2705495