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Small Hairy Screw-moss

Syntrichia laevipila

2,913Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan338
Feb368
Mar392
Apr288
May181
Jun132
Jul114
Aug92
Sep120
Oct212
Nov317
Dec324

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Somerset England229
2Cambridgeshire England166
3Gloucestershire England111
4Cornwall England106
5Devon England98
6Dorset England75
7Pembrokeshire Wales71
8Swansea Wales63
9Monmouthshire Wales59
10Carmarthenshire Wales55
11Scottish Borders Scotland50
12North Yorkshire England49
13Bath and North East Somerset England47
14Northamptonshire England41
15Powys Wales40
2,152 England230 Scotland516 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,913
Peak month
March
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Syntrichia laevipila
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,004
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Pottiales
Family
Pottiaceae
Genus
Syntrichia
Name with authority
Syntrichia laevipila Brid.
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15316812 · GBIF 2671290