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Squirrel's Tail Fescue

Festuca bromoides

1,244Records since 2000
JunePeak month
51Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb1
Mar1
Apr4
May194
Jun367
Jul151
Aug64
Sep27
Oct6
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England395
2Suffolk England78
3Essex England57
4Portsmouth England55
5Herefordshire, County of England46
6Norfolk England34
7Powys Wales26
8Telford and Wrekin England26
9Surrey England21
10North Tyneside England21
11Devon England19
12Ceredigion Wales13
13Dorset England12
14Cornwall England9
15Somerset England9
1,140 England42 Scotland43 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 51 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,244
Peak month
June
Counties with records
51
Scientific name
Festuca bromoides
Group
Flowering plants
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Festuca
Name with authority
Festuca bromoides L.
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21874254 · GBIF 2702740