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Pill Sedge

Carex pilulifera

1,968Records since 2000
JunePeak month
50Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr68
May281
Jun418
Jul414
Aug156
Sep85
Oct8
Nov19
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland361
2Worcestershire England306
3Devon England151
4Perth and Kinross Scotland117
5Cumbria England84
6Argyll and Bute Scotland59
7Suffolk England53
8North Yorkshire England45
9Powys Wales44
10Norfolk England42
11Pembrokeshire Wales42
12South Ayrshire Scotland40
13Ceredigion Wales38
14Stirling Scotland34
15Swansea Wales22
1,026 England676 Scotland209 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 50 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,968
Peak month
June
Counties with records
50
Scientific name
Carex pilulifera
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,220
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Cyperaceae
Genus
Carex
Name with authority
Carex pilulifera L.
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158935 · GBIF 2726614