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Meadow Oat-grass

Helictotrichon pratense

756Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
29Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar1
Apr19
May26
Jun129
Jul318
Aug120
Sep51
Oct15
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Perth and Kinross Scotland70
2North Yorkshire England52
3South Ayrshire Scotland51
4Scottish Borders Scotland46
5Dorset England31
6Angus Scotland25
7Highland Scotland12
8Kent England11
9Fife Scotland9
10Cumbria England5
11Gloucestershire England4
12Lincolnshire England3
13West Berkshire England3
14Bristol, City of England3
15East Riding of Yorkshire England2
534 England219 Scotland2 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 29 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
756
Peak month
July
Counties with records
29
Scientific name
Helictotrichon pratense
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Helictotrichon
Name with authority
Helictotrichon pratense (L.) Besser
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7890013