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Maidenhair Spleenwort

Asplenium trichomanes

6,221Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
119Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan311
Feb291
Mar381
Apr793
May790
Jun684
Jul615
Aug600
Sep515
Oct311
Nov266
Dec328

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England358
2Sefton England343
3Cumbria England305
4Highland Scotland288
5North Yorkshire England226
6City of Edinburgh Scotland225
7Devon England150
8Argyll and Bute Scotland146
9Powys Wales124
10Sheffield England119
11Gwynedd Wales110
12Cornwall England109
13Perth and Kinross Scotland88
14Fife Scotland87
15Somerset England76
3,980 England1,143 Scotland574 Wales85 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 119 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,221
Peak month
April
Counties with records
119
Scientific name
Asplenium trichomanes
Group
Ferns and horsetails
NBN Atlas records since 2000
24,969
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Polypodiopsida
Order
Polypodiales
Family
Aspleniaceae
Genus
Asplenium
Name with authority
Asplenium trichomanes L.
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q902211 · GBIF 8108066