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Quack Grass

Elymus repens

4,798Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
99Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb28
Mar34
Apr89
May166
Jun744
Jul1,097
Aug756
Sep463
Oct190
Nov66
Dec24

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England968
2Cambridgeshire England223
3Essex England142
4Norfolk England133
5Telford and Wrekin England111
6Suffolk England109
7Oxfordshire England94
8Highland Scotland75
9Herefordshire, County of England75
10North Yorkshire England68
11East Lothian Scotland63
12North Tyneside England58
13Sheffield England50
14Fife Scotland49
15Cumbria England45
4,275 England439 Scotland48 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 99 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,798
Peak month
July
Counties with records
99
Scientific name
Elymus repens
Also known as
Common Couch
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
44,903
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Elymus
Name with authority
Elymus repens (L.) Gould
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q276262 · GBIF 5290299