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Smooth Meadow-grass

Poa pratensis

3,858Records since 2000
JunePeak month
98Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan15
Feb3
Mar17
Apr89
May791
Jun1,114
Jul539
Aug319
Sep117
Oct33
Nov8
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England590
2Highland Scotland197
3Oxfordshire England133
4Norfolk England121
5Herefordshire, County of England92
6Sefton England79
7Suffolk England77
8North Yorkshire England72
9Cambridgeshire England70
10Cumbria England69
11Devon England66
12Argyll and Bute Scotland63
13Essex England53
14Sheffield England51
15Powys Wales43
2,928 England473 Scotland212 Wales8 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
3,858
Peak month
June
Counties with records
98
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Poa pratensis
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
68,109
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Poa
Name with authority
Poa pratensis L.
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q147783 · GBIF 2704178