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Giant fescue

Lolium giganteum

1,581Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
67Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar7
Apr61
May121
Jun168
Jul295
Aug241
Sep123
Oct50
Nov17
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England467
2Herefordshire, County of England60
3Telford and Wrekin England38
4Oxfordshire England30
5Norfolk England27
6Cumbria England24
7North Yorkshire England22
8Surrey England21
9Suffolk England18
10Essex England16
11Argyll and Bute Scotland16
12Pembrokeshire Wales15
13West Berkshire England13
14Cambridgeshire England12
15Rutland England12
1,432 England49 Scotland68 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 67 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,581
Peak month
July
Counties with records
67
Scientific name
Lolium giganteum
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Lolium
Name with authority
Lolium giganteum (L.) Darbysh.
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q58410999 · GBIF 8368313