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Purple Moor-grass

Molinia caerulea

11,789Records since 2000
JunePeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan44
Feb65
Mar166
Apr183
May973
Jun2,493
Jul2,452
Aug2,349
Sep1,263
Oct293
Nov66
Dec25

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland2,252
2Pembrokeshire Wales905
3Argyll and Bute Scotland834
4Powys Wales608
5Ceredigion Wales584
6Worcestershire England530
7Cornwall England434
8Devon England346
9Cambridgeshire England310
10Carmarthenshire Wales281
11Cumbria England271
12North Yorkshire England239
13South Ayrshire Scotland233
14Surrey England217
15East Ayrshire Scotland209
4,008 England4,465 Scotland3,088 Wales69 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,789
Peak month
June
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Molinia caerulea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
37,824
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Molinia
Name with authority
Molinia caerulea (L.) Moench
Contributing datasets
52

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157772 · GBIF 5289877