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Meadow oat grass

Helictochloa pratensis

735Records since 2000
JunePeak month
37Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr5
May106
Jun233
Jul166
Aug107
Sep101
Oct5
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland91
2Gloucestershire England63
3Cambridgeshire England56
4Perth and Kinross Scotland47
5North Yorkshire England34
6Essex England31
7South Ayrshire Scotland30
8Cumbria England27
9Conwy Wales25
10Norfolk England20
11Oxfordshire England11
12Suffolk England9
13Pembrokeshire Wales9
14Surrey England8
15Northamptonshire England7
500 England185 Scotland42 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 37 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
735
Peak month
June
Counties with records
37
Scientific name
Helictochloa pratensis
Also known as
Meadow Oat-grass
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,504
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Helictochloa
Name with authority
Helictochloa pratensis (L.) Romero Zarco
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q50843063 · GBIF 6559939