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Spotty Featherwort

Plagiochila punctata

1,512Records since 2000
FebruaryPeak month
23Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan68
Feb258
Mar99
Apr88
May108
Jun150
Jul140
Aug114
Sep138
Oct138
Nov98
Dec45

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland453
2Gwynedd Wales405
3Argyll and Bute Scotland211
4Carmarthenshire Wales64
5Ceredigion Wales57
6Cumbria England50
7Powys Wales29
8Cornwall England27
9Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland25
10Devon England17
11Conwy Wales16
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland14
13Somerset England13
14Stirling Scotland13
15North Ayrshire Scotland10
107 England797 Scotland584 Wales20 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 23 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,512
Peak month
February
Counties with records
23
Scientific name
Plagiochila punctata
Group
Liverworts
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,618
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Marchantiophyta
Class
Jungermanniopsida
Order
Jungermanniales
Family
Plagiochilaceae
Genus
Plagiochila
Name with authority
Plagiochila punctata (Taylor) Taylor
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15313304 · GBIF 2688971