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Yellow Feather-moss

Homalothecium lutescens

4,490Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan405
Feb428
Mar656
Apr412
May307
Jun419
Jul292
Aug259
Sep216
Oct303
Nov353
Dec367

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England335
2North Yorkshire England237
3Suffolk England166
4Gloucestershire England163
5Swansea Wales142
6Somerset England138
7Kent England105
8Worcestershire England92
9Devon England88
10Dorset England87
11Lincolnshire England82
12Cumbria England64
13Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland63
14Norfolk England58
15Highland Scotland57
3,333 England279 Scotland850 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,490
Peak month
March
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Homalothecium lutescens
Group
Mosses
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,632
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Bryophyta
Class
Bryopsida
Order
Hypnales
Family
Brachytheciaceae
Genus
Homalothecium
Name with authority
Homalothecium lutescens (Hedw.) H.Rob.
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q766433 · GBIF 2673099