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Quaking-grass

Briza media

4,392Records since 2000
JunePeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr43
May463
Jun1,363
Jul988
Aug624
Sep232
Oct44
Nov6
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England500
2North Yorkshire England345
3Cumbria England129
4Gloucestershire England96
5Powys Wales94
6Perth and Kinross Scotland92
7Cambridgeshire England85
8Herefordshire, County of England80
9Surrey England64
10Oxfordshire England62
11Dorset England55
12Norfolk England43
13Essex England37
14Portsmouth England36
15Rutland England35
3,755 England230 Scotland277 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,392
Peak month
June
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Briza media
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,340
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Briza
Name with authority
Briza media L.
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q164237 · GBIF 2702789