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Rusty Feather-moss

Sciuro-hypnum plumosum

6,519Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
77Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan345
Feb424
Mar631
Apr746
May555
Jun653
Jul833
Aug679
Sep512
Oct342
Nov343
Dec270

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland909
2Gwynedd Wales457
3Ceredigion Wales381
4Powys Wales379
5Carmarthenshire Wales373
6Argyll and Bute Scotland226
7Pembrokeshire Wales225
8Devon England221
9Cumbria England206
10Conwy Wales187
11North Yorkshire England161
12Dumfries and Galloway Scotland152
13Scottish Borders Scotland147
14Perth and Kinross Scotland146
15Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland138
1,527 England2,127 Scotland2,506 Wales354 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 77 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,519
Peak month
July
Counties with records
77
Scientific name
Sciuro-hypnum plumosum
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,810
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Hypnales
Family
Brachytheciaceae
Genus
Sciuro-hypnum
Name with authority
Sciuro-hypnum plumosum (Hedw.) Ignatov & Huttunen
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15608856 · GBIF 8399643