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Red-stemmed Feather-moss

Pleurozium schreberi

13,899Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
98Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan594
Feb790
Mar1,179
Apr1,217
May1,157
Jun1,528
Jul1,776
Aug1,594
Sep1,419
Oct891
Nov592
Dec515

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland2,060
2Ceredigion Wales790
3Cumbria England783
4Powys Wales674
5Perth and Kinross Scotland615
6North Yorkshire England522
7Worcestershire England469
8Carmarthenshire Wales439
9Argyll and Bute Scotland412
10Gwynedd Wales389
11Aberdeenshire Scotland334
12Moray Scotland295
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland269
14East Ayrshire Scotland269
15Scottish Borders Scotland253
4,453 England5,860 Scotland3,391 Wales188 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,899
Peak month
July
Counties with records
98
Scientific name
Pleurozium schreberi
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
14,280
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Hypnales
Family
Hylocomiaceae
Genus
Pleurozium
Name with authority
Pleurozium schreberi (Willd. ex Brid.) Mitt.
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1646440 · GBIF 2679715