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Hard-fern

Struthiopteris spicant

7,697Records since 2000
JunePeak month
99Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan142
Feb231
Mar352
Apr585
May943
Jun1,206
Jul1,181
Aug933
Sep592
Oct331
Nov223
Dec125

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,725
2Argyll and Bute Scotland895
3Worcestershire England590
4Devon England227
5Sheffield England172
6Powys Wales160
7Gwynedd Wales157
8Cumbria England156
9North Yorkshire England136
10Cornwall England118
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland113
12Perth and Kinross Scotland110
13Aberdeenshire Scotland89
14Stirling Scotland76
15Herefordshire, County of England75
2,878 England3,297 Scotland455 Wales91 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 99 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,697
Peak month
June
Counties with records
99
Scientific name
Struthiopteris spicant
Group
Ferns and horsetails
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Polypodiopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Blechnaceae
Genus
Struthiopteris
Name with authority
Struthiopteris spicant (L.) Weiss
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q59420181 · GBIF 5275365