About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Magellanic Bog-moss
Species · Mosses

Magellanic Bog-moss

Sphagnum magellanicum

1,583Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan34
Feb51
Mar89
Apr98
May81
Jun161
Jul235
Aug285
Sep216
Oct166
Nov91
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland299
2East Ayrshire Scotland140
3Perth and Kinross Scotland85
4Cumbria England82
5Dumfries and Galloway Scotland70
6Stirling Scotland58
7Argyll and Bute Scotland46
8North Ayrshire Scotland41
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland39
10Scottish Borders Scotland36
11Ceredigion Wales35
12Aberdeenshire Scotland31
13West Lothian Scotland27
14North Yorkshire England26
15South Lanarkshire Scotland24
396 England1,051 Scotland102 Wales34 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,583
Peak month
August
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Sphagnum magellanicum
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,790
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Sphagnopsida
Order
Sphagnales
Family
Sphagnaceae
Genus
Sphagnum
Name with authority
Sphagnum magellanicum Brid.
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q135173 · GBIF 2669001