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Red Fescue

Festuca rubra

16,907Records since 2000
JunePeak month
111Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan94
Feb156
Mar173
Apr519
May1,763
Jun3,135
Jul2,593
Aug1,574
Sep1,036
Oct2,220
Nov149
Dec81

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,755
2Highland Scotland1,054
3Carmarthenshire Wales653
4Swansea Wales584
5Pembrokeshire Wales484
6Herefordshire, County of England469
7Gwynedd Wales412
8Oxfordshire England361
9Powys Wales345
10Argyll and Bute Scotland283
11Norfolk England251
12Telford and Wrekin England248
13Cumbria England244
14North Yorkshire England228
15Cambridgeshire England192
10,896 England2,371 Scotland3,267 Wales49 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 111 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,907
Peak month
June
Counties with records
111
Scientific name
Festuca rubra
Also known as
Red Fescues
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
81,501
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Festuca
Name with authority
Festuca rubra L.
Contributing datasets
60

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q159702 · GBIF 2704922